My first temp job has terminated. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. The people there were quite excited to have a bitch to order around, especially the secretary. I found myself being asked to reorganize shelving, ride six floors down the elevator and go out to a cafe in order to retrieve a single cup of coffee for a man with a superiority complex, file eight months worth of accounting invoices, and mailing, mailing, and more mailing. The people were friendly enough to make eye contact and lend a smile every here and there but never make genuine conversation. Until my last day of work, that is, at which point the CEO and my "supervisor" (who couldn't be bothered less by any clarifications I would need in order to do the tasks she asked me to complete) started getting fakely disappointed that I was leaving. Um, you didn't talk to me for five days and now you feel the need to say "oh what a shame"? Puh-lease. There were some positive and inte...
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Guess what--I finally got my first temp job! It's reception work, which is slightly less than exciting, but hey--I have paying work!!! For the next week I will be working for a company that promotes art as an investment and they educate people on how to invest in artwork and how to expand their portfolios. They also hold exhibitions and rent out art. Rent out art??? I had no idea there was such a thing! If you're an art piece owner, you can lease your pieces to this company to be rented out. It's a bit of a random company, but some of the art pieces are pretty gorgeous. Here's a piece that is on display at our office right now. It's a piece by an aboriginal artist: What you can't see is that the painting is entirely made up of dots and dashes (like the morse code, ha ha!) and it's actually made up to be a topographical landscape of the artist's land. The company I am currently working for works with some very well-renowned Australian artists and their cu...