Oh the things we'll do for money
Many have asked what Joe&Tina are doing to stay afloat financially these days. Not to fear, dear friends, we aren't one of the many unfortunate stats of unemployment you hear in the news. To make ends meet until God flings the door open wide, Joe&Tina are working temp jobs. Tina's job is truly a temp job in every sense of the word. She applied at a temp agency that has placed her with a company which recently sold off a large portion of its business (and thus employees) but still has a great deal of work to do as the transition happens. She is getting paid $12 an hour to babysit computers in the evenings, periodically entering commands to start it on another four-hour round of file transfers. She has decided that it's a job that a slightly trained monkey could do, but she is certainly not going to turn down the money. Plus the downtime provides the opportunity to surf the internet to her hearts content.
Joe's job is slightly less fortunate. He works for a telemarketing company that has a catchy jingle and the promise of great pay/benefits. He has to sell vacation packages to folks in an attempt to get them to fall in love with the resort company so much that they'll want to sign on for a timeshare. Both Joe&Tina are working 2nd shift -- Joe from 4 - 10:45, Tina from 3 - 11. That's p.m. The folks Tina works with are super-nice -- well, they're nice until they leave at 5 and then the building is pretty empty. Joe's co-workers are slightly more "colorful" -- mostly smokers and folks whose speech is littered with comments/words/phrases I won't repeat here for the sake of maintaining a G-rating.
We're both learning a ton. Tina's learning that she's not that computer literate and definitely could never fake her way into an I.T. job. Joe's learning that people skills and telemarketing don't have that much to do with each other. We're both learning that we REALLY want our temp lives to turn into the past so we can get on with the future.
Joe's job is slightly less fortunate. He works for a telemarketing company that has a catchy jingle and the promise of great pay/benefits. He has to sell vacation packages to folks in an attempt to get them to fall in love with the resort company so much that they'll want to sign on for a timeshare. Both Joe&Tina are working 2nd shift -- Joe from 4 - 10:45, Tina from 3 - 11. That's p.m. The folks Tina works with are super-nice -- well, they're nice until they leave at 5 and then the building is pretty empty. Joe's co-workers are slightly more "colorful" -- mostly smokers and folks whose speech is littered with comments/words/phrases I won't repeat here for the sake of maintaining a G-rating.
We're both learning a ton. Tina's learning that she's not that computer literate and definitely could never fake her way into an I.T. job. Joe's learning that people skills and telemarketing don't have that much to do with each other. We're both learning that we REALLY want our temp lives to turn into the past so we can get on with the future.
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