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in which it never rains but it pours
So let's review.
Two weeks before I moved back down here, I e-mailed My Old Legal Temp Agency (through whom I had to be hired when I went back to my old firm two summers ago), as instructed, so they could re-activate my file with the idea that by the time I got here they'd have gotten me some work. Neither of the people whose names I had was there -- both on vacation. Nice. Left messages.
Continued to leave messages every four business days approx. until I finally got through to someone, about a week after I got here. No assignments. I remained unemployed.
Another week after that, I'd applied for umpteen frillion jobs on my own and registered with no fewer than three other agencies. Nothing. I began to suspect that the reason I keep hearing unemployment in NoVA is at something like 2% is that all my neighbors and fellow citizens are working nine jobs at a time so I can't have any.
Finally, I get a call back from one of these agencies. Go in, interview, do all right on Excel and PowerPoint, ace Word, and am immediately offered a long-term admin assistant gig that could turn into something permanent. Despair.
But then I get a call back from another agency. Go in and interview; when I get home, the first agency has called with a short-term gig. I take it.
On the first day at the short-term gig, a Real Employer calls about a Real Job. I call back and leave a message, and today manage to make contact and schedule the interview.
In the meantime, the agency for whom I am already on assignment calls to offer me a two-day gig later this week. I turn it down because, hi, look in your book, I'm not available.
And just now, Old Legal Agency calls (me: oh my god! you remember my name!) to offer me a week-long (entry-level but nevertheless) overtime gig at my own old firm. Tomorrow through next Wednesday, including the weekend, ten-hour days. Sadly the only day on which I know I'm available is Saturday, so we agree that I should not take this one.
Do we think it just took people longer than expected to get their desks cleared off after summer vacation and Labor Day? Or what?
Two weeks before I moved back down here, I e-mailed My Old Legal Temp Agency (through whom I had to be hired when I went back to my old firm two summers ago), as instructed, so they could re-activate my file with the idea that by the time I got here they'd have gotten me some work. Neither of the people whose names I had was there -- both on vacation. Nice. Left messages.
Continued to leave messages every four business days approx. until I finally got through to someone, about a week after I got here. No assignments. I remained unemployed.
Another week after that, I'd applied for umpteen frillion jobs on my own and registered with no fewer than three other agencies. Nothing. I began to suspect that the reason I keep hearing unemployment in NoVA is at something like 2% is that all my neighbors and fellow citizens are working nine jobs at a time so I can't have any.
Finally, I get a call back from one of these agencies. Go in, interview, do all right on Excel and PowerPoint, ace Word, and am immediately offered a long-term admin assistant gig that could turn into something permanent. Despair.
But then I get a call back from another agency. Go in and interview; when I get home, the first agency has called with a short-term gig. I take it.
On the first day at the short-term gig, a Real Employer calls about a Real Job. I call back and leave a message, and today manage to make contact and schedule the interview.
In the meantime, the agency for whom I am already on assignment calls to offer me a two-day gig later this week. I turn it down because, hi, look in your book, I'm not available.
And just now, Old Legal Agency calls (me: oh my god! you remember my name!) to offer me a week-long (entry-level but nevertheless) overtime gig at my own old firm. Tomorrow through next Wednesday, including the weekend, ten-hour days. Sadly the only day on which I know I'm available is Saturday, so we agree that I should not take this one.
Do we think it just took people longer than expected to get their desks cleared off after summer vacation and Labor Day? Or what?
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Sadly, I am (genuinely, rather than in-the-world-of-HR-people) unqualified for any of those positions. Or -- well, I could do the admin assistant thing, but I'd die. And I'm not completely unqualified for the webmaster thing, believe it or not, but I suspect the facts that I've never met HomeSite or Dreamweaver or anything like them, and that although I do all my coding by hand I've never really handled CSS, would probably hurt my chances. Thanks for the tip, though; I'll bookmark the site. Never hurts to keep things in mind.