Category Archives: Temping

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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