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Temping work
Girl-From-Mars
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At the moment I work part time at Asda, in the deli. Due to recent cutbacks, I'm working for 10 of my 15.5 hrs in a small room, preparing food by myself, with very little chance to see anyone, customers OR colleagues. I don't like it. Not what I applied there for. So it's time to move on.
As I don't attend college anymore, just do the work from home (shhhh), I was thinking about getting a job temping a couple of days a week. I have 3 A levels, and a typing speed of about 100 wpm, and I'm good with computers and a quick learner, blah blah. Anyone have any experience of temping in offices? How much I can expect to be paid? That kinda stuff. I only want to find employment for about 6 months, because I'm going to university in September. I don't *need* the money, but I'm thinking I will do when I get to uni.
So any advice you can give me would be much appreciated <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0"> Oh, and I'm 19.
As I don't attend college anymore, just do the work from home (shhhh), I was thinking about getting a job temping a couple of days a week. I have 3 A levels, and a typing speed of about 100 wpm, and I'm good with computers and a quick learner, blah blah. Anyone have any experience of temping in offices? How much I can expect to be paid? That kinda stuff. I only want to find employment for about 6 months, because I'm going to university in September. I don't *need* the money, but I'm thinking I will do when I get to uni.
So any advice you can give me would be much appreciated <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0"> Oh, and I'm 19.
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Good luck.
But my mind's made up. It would be better to work like a robot in an office than do my current job! There aren't any vacancies in other departments either... I was going to try George, or checkouts.. but the checkout manager is NOT someone I would willingly work for! It's not as if I'm on the breadline, so it won't matter if I can't find another job straightaway. I'm on £4.51 at the moment, and I could probably stand a penny's loss per hour for a bit of a better job <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0">
It's all more experience to put on my CV anyway. I've stayed at Asda for 9 months now, instead of 6 like I planned to because I changed my university plans.
Thanks for the reply <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0">
I'm now back at Office Angels looking for permanent work and since I registered 3 weeks ago Ive had 4 interviews. I don't know if theres a branch near you or if they'll be as good but its worth a try anyway!
Good Luck. Hope you find something soon!
you will be givern the crap jobs for the first few months, that is to be expected.
My advice is go through someone like the council cause they have that investors in people thing and it looks good for them if they employ people in your position. They employed me through a governent funded employment agency called joblink, although i dont know if this was just exclusive to cornwall. Once you're registered on their books then they can pass your name around to whoever. i get £4.69 an hour, which is the standard rate and not bad for a student just working normal office hours for a week will get you good money.