I have an appointment with a temp agency later this week. I wish temping resembled the old time secretarial pools a la Mad Men, but without all the starch and affairs.
One thing I remember from previous temp ventures is the horrifying computer aptitude testing. Let's be serious here -- no journalism major is going to be handy on Excel. I was the star of my assistantship when I was able to compose e-mails and file things in alphabetical order.
My father lent me a book today: Rethinking Work. It basically says that you have to find your passion, which frankly I could have realized without reading graphs about my motivation, but this kind of thing is interesting nonetheless. According to the book, I should not be going to the temp appointment because if offends my inner motives. I admit, I have an intense desire to get some hotel job in the Rockies and never look back.
So I am indeed rethinking work. What if I just don't do it at all?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Reworking thought
Posted by The Master of Arts at 10:00 AM
Labels: college, communications, employment, grad school, graduate, jobs, journalism, students, temp, unemployment
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4 comments:
You could:
1) Not work at all... live live Holly out of some website like this one and its adsense revenue... right...
2) Go to the temp thing and realize that they won't hire you because you're overqualified and they want some rookie fresh out of community college.
3) Figure out that in this economy, just as you are screwed, they are screwed.
On the other hand... yes, cause I'm this idealistic, I'm always searching for the dream job, and realize that maybe I sketched the dream job in the wrong paper, with the wrong pencil and probably, like Frank, lost the damn card somewhere...
Do you want to work? Go to the appointment... after all, what's the worst that can happen? that you quit if you actually find something better? Believe me, just like when finding a boyfriend, all you need is one guy playing with your toys to have all the other kiddies wanting to play with you as well.
As Avi said or, you could just lie, lie, lie your way into a temp job and convince them you are nan qualified.
There's that or moving to Hollywood to work in porn....
Or just find some hot guy to support you while you blog all day. And when you find one of those, let me know if he has a non gay brother!
you should sign up to do focus groups. i've done two in the past year and got $100 each time to sit there for an hour and talk about what makes you buy cheese products or some crap. google "focus on boston." that's one of the sites. also, this is b.
Temp agencies are alright. I had to sign up with five and wait a month before anything materialized, and even then it was just 3 days a week for two months - max. Premiere is the one that placed me. If you end up going to them, be sure to let them know I referred you. I might get a gas card or something.
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