Category Archives: Temping

Jason stopped by the cube at about 4:15 yesterday, bearing bad news. The recent turn of events has left the E-Pro department with a shortage of work, and he felt it necessary to send me home for the day. He said that he wanted me to call in today at 9:00a.m. to see if they’d want me to come in today, while half-jokingly adding, “if at all.”
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After spending the first half of the day working on mock-ups I soon realized that there was a shortage of work for me to do. Accordingly, Jason has told me that I may be free for the rest of the day. Knowing that the MSN so-and-sos are making key decisions about the project today, he’s also assured me an abundant workload tomorrow.
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Woke up a bit late today and chose to ease in to my Monday morning. Having had certain muscle groups brought to my attention last week, I haven’t been working out lately. Instead, I managed only a little bit of morning study and hung out with Mary and Willy.
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I walked out of work today at 6:00, “Magic hour.” The afternoon’s 70&deg zephyr was an amazing contrast to the morning’s chilly downpour. Tucking my coat and pullover in my backpack, with umbrella in hand, I walked northward along the shore side route of the local 17, the bus I’d just missed. What an amazing end to my workday.
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Jason had two more layouts for the MSN series ready for me to work on when I first walked in the door this morning. The packaging I’m currently working on are called “form factors.” These comprise the casings and brochure inserts for an upcoming release of MSN DVDs. I’m mainly working in Photoshop at the moment, building mechanicals from the various comps which have been haphazardly pieced together by some undisclosed graphic designer. I’m building these so they’ll be ready when the powers-that-be from Microsoft give their approval (which is apparently already a week late).
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Mike handed off a job for MSN at around 10:45, interrupting the reading I was trying to catch up on. (Cool articles in the supplemental Photoshop CS issue which accompanied my usual Photos User this month.) The files that were handed to me just required some minor and straightforward copy editing, so it didn’t take very long to whip out.
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I arrived at work at 9:00 a.m., and it was off to the races. I spent my first hour at H2L giving the designated freelance workstation a much-needed makeover. The terribly dusty cubicle that sits on the corner of Kitchen and Main looked like it had become a repository for misplaced items. I packed the miscellaneous pieces into the lid of a paper case and hosed the surfaces down with Lysol. When I’d finished stripping the cube down I took my framed photo of Willy out of my backpack and made him at home on the shelf above my 20″ monitor.
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My agent called me at about 5:40 this evening. She was calling to confirm that I’m going out to my new assignment. She sounded concerned about my stuffy nose. “You are going in tomorrow, right?” I assured her that I was looking forward to starting, and she continued to lend her enthusiasm. Before the end of the call she informed me that she’d be checking in about once a week and asked me to call after my big first day. “Knock Continue reading →

Returning the enthusiastic phone message from my agent, I learned that my interview over at Horton, Lantz and Low had apparently been a resounding success. In fact, my agent said that they’d seemed confused when she’d called them for feedback, indicating that they were already expecting me to start on Wednesday.
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