Oh - let me tell you...it has definitely been interesting being a temp! Within the last couple weeks I have been very busy - working pretty much every day. I had a very random assignment recently that I heard about through a friend who lives in Omaha and used to live in New York. Anyways, she forwarded me this information about how a PR firm in California needed a PR professional to help out with media for a one-day assignment in Albany, NY on September 11th. I was actually available that day and am a PR professional so I sent my resume and said I was available if they needed me. Well - they did and they flew me to Albany on Wednesday night (even though it's only 2 1/2 hours away) and I worked with the press during this New York State Task Force meeting on Flame Retardants! It was so crazy! But it was quite interesting and I learned a lot about flame retardants and the chemicals in them. I flew back home on Thursday night and was back temping at Hess on Friday & Monday.
I was also offered a temp assignment on Sunday from 9am - 5pm and even though I worked all week and was scheduled all next week - I took the assignment cause it never hurts to make money! So guess what I did all day for my job? I handed out balloons at a street parade for this Realty Company. They actually hired three of us to blow up and hand-out balloons. It was pretty funny. I really wish I had a photo for you of me handing out balloons. But hey - I guess it wasn't too bad for $12 an hour - but definitely random.
All last week I worked Armani Exchange helping them prep for a photo shoot - doesn't that sound exciting?! Well I thought so too - I was pretty excited about helping with a photo shoot. Well, the photo shoot is actually next week and I was literally "prepping" all the clothes for the shoot which meant tagging & labeling 7 racks of clothes! It took me all week to do it - way more work than you'd think. I guess it was still pretty cool and I do love the Armani Exchange clothes and now when I go to their website or in their stores - I can think that I helped in a small way. :)
For the next couple of weeks - I will be back at Hess for a short-term temp assignment. I'm excited to be booked for awhile and I love working at Hess. I'm actually interviewing there for permanent work as well. I've gone on a second & third-round interview for a position there and am waiting to schedule another interview - so that is always good. However, I have also been interviewing with Carnegie East House - a senior living residence non-profit for their Marketing Director position. Both sets of interviews have been going very well, but the jobs are completely different...so I'll be sure to let you know how all that comes out!
But for now - back to temping!
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