# Temp Job! Starts Monday! Maybe Even Permanent!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297 "2011-04-21T23:34:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/1 "2011-04-21T23:34:48Z")
“Maybe even permanent…” That’s what the recruiter said!! Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh pleeeeeeease!!! I start Monday. I’ve never been so thrilled for so little a chance. I’ve been a year unemployed. I spent time with an outfit trying to sell life insurance on straight commission, but that was going nowhere fast so I gave it up last month. All that talk about team building, and warm markets, and all they really wanted me to do was try to recruit and sell policies to my friends and relatives. That and waste money at their pep talk seminars. I didn’t make dime one, and lost money on this and that fee. What a rip off. But this is Accounts Payable. This is what I’ve done for thirty years. I cursed it for thirty years, but now I’m eager to get back into it. Just a temp job. But maybe permanent. Life is good. For now. :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/2 "2011-04-22T01:23:45Z")
Good luck! May your bosses be kind, the breakroom coffee decent, and the job permanent. StG ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/3 "2011-04-22T03:42:53Z")
Yeah. What StG said. Good luck, and congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/4 "2011-04-22T03:54:56Z")
Good luck! I’ve been working a temp job that was supposed to last two weeks for the past four months. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/5 "2011-04-22T06:26:46Z")
Good for you! All of my temp jobs went perm, but that was before the job market tanked. Fingers crossed for you. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/6 "2011-04-22T11:13:46Z")
Good luck as a fellow temp person I can tell you, as you sort of observed yourself, you’ll be amazed at how petty everyone else’s complaints will be \ ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/7 "2011-04-24T10:29:51Z")
Good Luck! I took a temp job 18 years ago. I’m still working there. Hope yours works out as well. Good thoughts, etc. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/8 "2011-04-24T10:40:02Z")
The best job of my life was a temp situation that went very permanent. I wish you all the best! ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/9 "2011-04-24T10:40:34Z")
Good luck, I hope you really enjoy it! ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temp-job-starts-monday-maybe-even-permanent/579297/10 "2011-04-24T18:34:48Z")
Good luck with your new job. However, I should warn you that temp recruiters are up there with lawyers and telemarketers as being the sleazebags of the earth. I’ve been promised “temp-to-perm” many times, and never once did it come to fruition (in fact, the client has even told me that they never said such a thing to the agency). It sounds like other dopers have had better luck with that though.