According to the website of one of the temping agencies I’m signed up with it’s a big no-no for women to turn up to job interviews without any make up on. This agency isn’t interviewing for make up artists, counter sales people, or models, so I don’t see how my make up less face is a big deal.

To be honest, I do wear make up. But it’s minimal. A bit of tinted moisturiser, a touch of concealer, a swipe of bronzing powder, and maybe some eye liner on a special occasion.

Does this make me unemployable?

Your money is a grand thing. It helps people like me, who don’t have formal qualifications but quite like sitting in front of a computer all day and are good at it, do the things they like. Buy the things they like. Travel to places far far away from you.

In your offices overhearing 30 minute conversations about why the printer is taking so long can be quite entertaining. Finding words like synergies and inter-dependencies in documents give sane people like me a bit of a laugh. (Hearing them said out loud however makes it hard to choose between laughing in your face and punching you in the face for being a pretentious dickwad.) And the free fruit helps to battle how gross I feel sitting in air conditioning 5 days a week.

Seeing how much money you waste though pisses me off. Giving temps, like me, work to fill only half their days is a huge waste of money. Money that me, my friends, and my family pay to the government in taxes.

And seeing how much power you give to Middle Managers that have no fucking clue pisses me off. Don’t you know it’s the little people that do all the work? They’re the ones that will leave and find another job quite easily when you won’t listen to a word they say. Sure, Middle Manager, you’re the one that will take the flak if shit hits the fan. But the little people you manage aren’t that concerned about that flak when you treat them like shit.

But do you know what’s great about coming back in to the office after a year away?

It’s reminded me why I left. Why temping is definitely the right choice for me. Why this is a money earner, not a career. And most of all, why focusing on my own business is important.

I want to try harder. I’ve been very slack the last 8 months. I forgot why I was running my business and how amazing that opportunity is.

Now I just have to wait for this assignment to be over so I can try again.

Thanks for being shit.

xo

Kim