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Hey, We’re Just Protecting the Neighbourhood

July 29, 2009

Every now and then, I gleefully entertain fantasies of laughing in the face of my current job, and becoming a full-time house painter. A mate of mine continues to espouse a theory that a bunch of us could all easily slap a few licks of paint on buildings for a living, but makes the activity [...]

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Ain’t No Wallflower (Or: My Last Bad Job Interview Story For Now – I Promise)

March 9, 2002

I ambled into the recruitment agency’s foyer – this was an interview I was preparing to treat with great disregard, as I’d had an amazingly promising interview just the day before. I was feeling so confident about my previous interview that it was a fair bet I had that job (the next day, I ended [...]

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You Goth-a Work Hard to Make a Living

November 20, 2001

Most of my desperate job applications of recent weeks are located in the city or surrounding area. To be honest, this was the main reason Adam and I relocated from the Burning Tyres Shire to Sydney’s inner suburbs: a welcome elimination of daily hour-long smelly, sweaty commuter-crammed public transport experiences. Yet as the job market [...]

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I Am the White Boy Mavis Beacon

October 28, 2001

Patiently queuing at a pedestrian crossing with business folk who didn’t look like they’d turn down a healthy dose of leisurely discipline after hours, I absently pulled at my necktie. I’d been hoping that the next job I procured didn’t require me to wear this dirty uniform of corporate whoredom, as I’d been lucky enough [...]

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Thank You for Thanking Me for My Recent Application

October 24, 2001

Dear Commission-Hungry Representative, Thank you for thanking me for my recent application for the position of Customer Service Pleb, which was recently dressed up as a once in a lifetime opportunity on my jobseeker website of choice. Further thanks for having now sent me your whinging standard response twice. After careful consideration, it is with [...]

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Group of People May Contain Traces of Nuts

October 4, 2001

One of the employment agencies I’m with has convinced me to partake in an activity of theirs which they like to term ‘breakfast temping’. After expressing my annoyance that they didn’t seem to have even glanced at my resumé – nowhere did I mention an interest in catering or a preference for early morning working [...]

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My Career Has Been Sorted

September 24, 2001

Peering over the frosted glass encapsulating myself and three arrogantly rigid wooden chairs, I survey the local area. Tens of quivering temps clutching anxiously at their resumes are sitting, waiting, fearing their vocational destiny just as I am. The employment agency I’m visiting this morning has become my favourite. They’re quite professionally run and got [...]

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Get Your Hands off My Goncalves

July 16, 2001

So as it turns out, my fourth job in Sydney ends up being another dot com job, contrary to what I was expecting. I don’t think I’ll get laid off again any time soon, but if I do I’m off dot com jobs for good. An interview for this job was organised almost by accident. [...]

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If You Can’t Handle the Ugliness, Get Out of the Kitchen

July 1, 2001

Relief, pleasurable moaning, escape, release and evacuation. All phrases closely associated with not only finishing a job that in its final month required me to complete tasks rarely more challenging than burrowing feverishly through filing; but also attributable to feelings experienced shortly after desperately gulping down two Imodium tablets. All praise anti-dihorrea medication, eh? There’s [...]

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My New Career Direction

June 24, 2001

Just a single week left at my current job before the department I work with is turfed out into the cruelly anorexic employment market, but at least our employer is nudging us along to our next job with a little help. The company we work for has arranged for us all to attend Resume and [...]

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