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Personal Narrative: A Temp Job
It was supposed to be a temp job. The deal was six months, then six months turned into two years. Although I could use the money I really didn’t want to stay. The job was a bit beneath my skill set. I have worked for big companies such as Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, as an executive assistant. I assisted 5 different bosses to land this job with mediocre duties. “Good Morning thank you for calling Blow Bart how can I help you?” What kind of name is Blow Bart anyways? It sounds very perverted. What the company does is fix appliances such as ovens, slicers, refrigerators you get my drift. So all I do all day is schedule techs to come out and fix peoples appliances. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do it. What about Microsoft office? I spent so …show more content…
After noticing that pattern I started to realize that the length of time that you have been out of work matters. What was I to do? I tried to go back to the industry I was in prior but that didn’t work either. The architectural firms which is where my last two jobs were had a lot of budget cuts because of the recession that was happening in New York. It effected so many people. A lot of companies were getting rid of their employees left and right. So what is the best course of action to get back into the workforce because I had a family to provide for just like everybody else? I sign up to a bunch of temp agencies and they begin to call me for little 1-3 day assignments to only land the one I hated the most. There is no nice way to put it, I am a scheduler that’s it. I cannot spend the rest of my life doing this. There is so much more for me to do. My commute is horrible because I have to travel all the way to the Bronx from Brooklyn. That is every day and who wants to do that plus I have to be to work for 7am so I am up by 4 am and out the house by 5am? Is this job really worth it? I think not, but I have to keep a roof over my head and light, gas etc. So I guess you can say “I need Blow

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