Identity Fraud
The haven's comfortable and well-equipped office was the ideal venue to channel my anxiety into productive activity. I write a third resume to temp agencies to emphasize my portable skills, like every imaginable software application and de-emphasize my advanced degree that supposedly would be opening doors to high level positions any second now.
I write impassioned cover letters(well, the passion was built into the template, so really it was more like impassioned copy, paste and edit) to accompany my resume to marketing and management consulting firms. I feel a little schitzoid because one minute I am "pursuing opportunities in marketing management" and the next "my goal is to build a career focused on strategy development." Adding the third resume for temp positions made me feel like I had committed identity fraud on myself. But truthfully, I really am all three of those identities, so I would like to be the one that can make me the most money, but I am going with who can get me money soonest. Alas, the third resume.
I set up appointment with some new temp agencies. I suffered through a year of accounting classes, might as well try and maximize my hourly wage while submitting to hourly wage slavery. Accounting is tedious to learn, but it is easy to apply. My friend from Mills who has an accounting degree gives me the name of two agencies that have kept her consistently working. Elite and Accountants, Inc. She referred me to specific people at those firms who both turned out to be smarter than the average temp recruiter.
The recruiter from Elite is a little unsure about me because of my limited experience in accounting, but then a job comes across her desk at Sony Playstation. Its a project coordinator position that I am overqualified for, but I nonetheless must drive to Foster City to be interviewed. Ok, that sounds bitter. At the time I do not think I minded, but my total experience there has left me a tad bitter. When I went down there for an interview, I think I was feeling upbeat at the possibility of a positive cash flow. Pulling into Sony's parking lot in the aforementioned Audi blasting the air conditioning on a blazing hot day and I was feeling as cool as a cucumber.
I write impassioned cover letters(well, the passion was built into the template, so really it was more like impassioned copy, paste and edit) to accompany my resume to marketing and management consulting firms. I feel a little schitzoid because one minute I am "pursuing opportunities in marketing management" and the next "my goal is to build a career focused on strategy development." Adding the third resume for temp positions made me feel like I had committed identity fraud on myself. But truthfully, I really am all three of those identities, so I would like to be the one that can make me the most money, but I am going with who can get me money soonest. Alas, the third resume.
I set up appointment with some new temp agencies. I suffered through a year of accounting classes, might as well try and maximize my hourly wage while submitting to hourly wage slavery. Accounting is tedious to learn, but it is easy to apply. My friend from Mills who has an accounting degree gives me the name of two agencies that have kept her consistently working. Elite and Accountants, Inc. She referred me to specific people at those firms who both turned out to be smarter than the average temp recruiter.
The recruiter from Elite is a little unsure about me because of my limited experience in accounting, but then a job comes across her desk at Sony Playstation. Its a project coordinator position that I am overqualified for, but I nonetheless must drive to Foster City to be interviewed. Ok, that sounds bitter. At the time I do not think I minded, but my total experience there has left me a tad bitter. When I went down there for an interview, I think I was feeling upbeat at the possibility of a positive cash flow. Pulling into Sony's parking lot in the aforementioned Audi blasting the air conditioning on a blazing hot day and I was feeling as cool as a cucumber.
posted by NoelleMac at
12:23 PM
2 Comments:
playstation? cool. i used to work with someone who's kid was really into video games. maybe the two of you will connect in the workplace!
everyone kept telling me how "cool" it was to work there. You can wear jeans to work! I guess that is exciting if you have not worked in entrepreneurial environments for over a decade.
The person in the position was another managers 16 year old daughter who was being sexually harassed by some of the "gamers" I mean programmers that barely graduated high school. It is so hard to find good help these days.
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