Here we go again
Tomorrow, I have an interview at a new agency for a gig at a place where I've worked before. This is a different agency, one based out of San Mateo, and even though they have offices in Oakland, and San Francisco, and the contract itself is in Hayward, I have to go to San Mateo tomorrow.
I’m a white collar sharecropper; I go where the work is depending on which agency has work and depending on the time of year.
A lot of phone centers are gearing up for the upcoming Christmas season, the online companies are the ones around here who have to do the most amount of bulking up. Customers are getting smarter, but there's always going to be problems, so that's where there's work.
In the Spring, a couple of colleges downtown will be getting ready for their Fall admissions run, and they're going to need clerical types.
Summer’s usually when I take off, and stay home with the kids. I was offered a permanent job this last season with a really good company, but things didn’t work out. Ran into a bit of trouble with my supervisor. She ran things by the Pest Control theory of management; for everything you notice, there’s a couple dozen things you haven’t, so if she heard anything even remotely out of the ordinary, it was obviously a trend and obviously had to be fixed right away. Reminds me of when I was a sergeant; I’m getting tired of being some new mid-level manager’s training aid. It's been only a week and a half and I miss working there. There's a lot to be said about a company that takes care of their people the way they did. If I could only have done something different, but I'm not sure what, I’m more confused than bitter about the whole thing. My coworker, who's also a good friend, is at a loss too; usually there's something you can pin down when things go wrong, and in retrospect, you can see where and when the end started, but this isn’t the case here, and that’s quite disturbing.
Only a few weeks into this term at school, and things are going okay. I have another year left before I graduate and so I have to start studying the advertising industry a little more thoroughly now. I noticed when I registered that there’s a Comic Illustration course offered. There might be an opportunity to write a few treatments for some students there.
That and I still draw robots, and design art cars and vehicles when I’m trying to think of new things for my advertising assignments.
Oh well, the gig's not in the bag, so wish me luck.
I’m a white collar sharecropper; I go where the work is depending on which agency has work and depending on the time of year.
A lot of phone centers are gearing up for the upcoming Christmas season, the online companies are the ones around here who have to do the most amount of bulking up. Customers are getting smarter, but there's always going to be problems, so that's where there's work.
In the Spring, a couple of colleges downtown will be getting ready for their Fall admissions run, and they're going to need clerical types.
Summer’s usually when I take off, and stay home with the kids. I was offered a permanent job this last season with a really good company, but things didn’t work out. Ran into a bit of trouble with my supervisor. She ran things by the Pest Control theory of management; for everything you notice, there’s a couple dozen things you haven’t, so if she heard anything even remotely out of the ordinary, it was obviously a trend and obviously had to be fixed right away. Reminds me of when I was a sergeant; I’m getting tired of being some new mid-level manager’s training aid. It's been only a week and a half and I miss working there. There's a lot to be said about a company that takes care of their people the way they did. If I could only have done something different, but I'm not sure what, I’m more confused than bitter about the whole thing. My coworker, who's also a good friend, is at a loss too; usually there's something you can pin down when things go wrong, and in retrospect, you can see where and when the end started, but this isn’t the case here, and that’s quite disturbing.
Only a few weeks into this term at school, and things are going okay. I have another year left before I graduate and so I have to start studying the advertising industry a little more thoroughly now. I noticed when I registered that there’s a Comic Illustration course offered. There might be an opportunity to write a few treatments for some students there.
That and I still draw robots, and design art cars and vehicles when I’m trying to think of new things for my advertising assignments.
Oh well, the gig's not in the bag, so wish me luck.
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