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Surprise, surprise: I am starting work on Monday. It's a temporary position, so there was no interview; I just got a call from the agency this morning and jotted down the details, then drove over there to pick up some timecards and fill out the direct deposit form. Yeah, it's that simple. No need to have been running like crazy for most of the week, trying to reply to as many ads as possible. If I had been lounging around having fun for the entire month, the result would have been the same, because the agency that got me the job was actually one of the first places I went to right after the lay-off, and they hadn't been in touch for so long I was actually positive I'd never hear from them again. Oh well. That's life, I guess.
On the other hand, I wouldn't have had some quite interesting and definitely educational experiences with the few places I had applied to following my mother's insistent advice to check out the local Polish newspaper. To cut a long story short, I have now learned that, according to people who place ads in that paper, "office employee" usually means "telemarketer", and that you can get paid $10 per hour (with no benefits) for something I didn't want to do for three times as much at my last workplace, because watching others who did it and the constant stress they lived under made me squirm. Very educational indeed. *ponders the joys of being an immigrant who works for other immigrants*
Anyway. That's it for now, since I have a brilliant plan to start going to bed a little earlier from now on (I will have to get up around 6:30 on Monday!!!... *wails*).
On the other hand, I wouldn't have had some quite interesting and definitely educational experiences with the few places I had applied to following my mother's insistent advice to check out the local Polish newspaper. To cut a long story short, I have now learned that, according to people who place ads in that paper, "office employee" usually means "telemarketer", and that you can get paid $10 per hour (with no benefits) for something I didn't want to do for three times as much at my last workplace, because watching others who did it and the constant stress they lived under made me squirm. Very educational indeed. *ponders the joys of being an immigrant who works for other immigrants*
Anyway. That's it for now, since I have a brilliant plan to start going to bed a little earlier from now on (I will have to get up around 6:30 on Monday!!!... *wails*).
