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I don't miss temp work at all.
God, me neither. The only good thing about temping was that it kept me from being broke, and not being broke was the only thing keeping the soul-sucking depression at bay. (Temp-to-perm is a whole nother thing. Chronic temping made me want to curl up in a ball and cry. For two years.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NORA!!!
HAPPY B-DAY NORA!!!!
My first temp job lasted 2 hours, but I got paid for 4 hrs (it wasn't my fault they didn't want me). My second job one of the first things I heard was "We haven't had a temp last all day, they go to lunch and don't come back." Less than an hour there and I figured out why, but I stuck it out for the day and then told the agency I didn't want to go back.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORA!!!!
I liked temping, but I was temping at the height of the boom & could command a very nice hourly wage and long-term gigs. I don't think I could do it now.
I liked temping, but I was temping at the height of the boom & could command a very nice hourly wage and long-term gigs. I don't think I could do it now.When I first moved to NYC for grad school, I loved temping, when I returned to it about 8 or 9 years later, the hourly wage hadn't changed and it sucked.
My favorite temp job was sorting apples in an apple orchard. Most fun. Smelled great and I got to eat all the apples I wanted.
well, the definite non-careerness of temping takes the edge off it some for me. What I'd really like is a nice, three month gig using my IT skills. Coming off three years working pretty upper-level university IT training jobs to answering phones is kind of... huh.
I temped for 10 years by choice since I could afford to take about three months off out of a year to write. I worked my way up to where I got the plumb assignments filling in for maternity leaves. I did that at the Federal Reserve Bank for almost two years, going from leave to leave. Work three months, then take six weeks off. I worked in the Internal Audit department and the Federal Regulations Department (where I got to see interesting reports on credit card fraud [very hard to catch] and how the divestiture movement affected South African banks [quite a lot]).
I also temped for two years in Boston where I worked at Lotus Development (when it was the biggest software seller in the world, and Microsoft was "just the company that makes the operating system for IBM); WGBH (I ate fresh produce from the Victory Garden and worked near Bob Villa. Also met adults who had been on Zoom), and Harvard Business School (where I had the cushiest gig ever and read all of One Hundred Years of Solitude at my desk).
Happy birthday, Nora! Drink a beer today!
Happy birthday, Nora!!! And great wedding date, Jars!
My temp jobs were almost all office work except for one job where I was working in a warehouse for a couple of weeks. And getting paid like $2 an hour more then the people I was working next to who were doing the same thing as me because I normally did office work and they did warehouse work. So unfair. We were putting together binders of some kind of printed material or something? I don't really remember. I had the job right after getting to SF 15 or so years ago. Then I temped at Schwab for a while and that led to me getting a permanent job there. Uh...so no interesting temp stories at all.
I had a very mixed day yesterday which consisted of my friend's dog, who I am dogsitting while they are in England, throwing up a lot. Mostly on my new-this-year sofa. Per vet's recommendation, she fasted for 12 hours (hard with the other animals in the house getting fed and treats) and now is on a bland diet. She seems to be doing okay but sheesh. Not fun. She's got kidney disease and had a terrible jaw infection a couple of months ago and she really can't afford to lose much weight. poor pooch. poor sofa.
On the positive side of yesterday, I am getting what I asked for for this big freelance proofreading project due at the end of October and since god forbid I use ALL the money sensibly I made plans to go to California in November!! Including spending a long weekend in Palm Springs!!!