[HotPotato2009]

Hey everyone!

Some of you know that I am working as a temp and that I bounce from office to office everyone 6-9 months. Some of the offices I have been sent to, I liked. But the one I am at now... don't like so much.

My duties at this job are to "play" as a receptionist. Now my role as a temp is a clerk typist, but they have me as a receptionist. Anyhow, my duties here are to answer phones and transfer them to appropriate people, editting letters and memos, making labels, opening and sorting mail, ordering supplies for staff, making copies, etc.. anything else the supervisor asks me to do.

It's seems like I do more work here than the other employees and I don't even make as much as them! They make like probably $3-$4 more than I do and I do more than them. I'm walking around this place doing stuff for them and whatnot and they all sit around at their desk. Like, I can't leave my desk unless I have someone up front covering the phones... while everyone else can just up and leave when they please.

This kind of position urkes me to a point that I hate coming to work everyday! I don't really like to dress up anymore when I come to work. I just throw some jeans on and call it a day. I get depressed when I apply for other jobs and don't get a respond back, I get depressed when I can't think of any other jobs to apply to.

I'm only here until Nov. 24 (thank god) but that seems so far away from now. I still have 4 months!! Is there any advice that any can give to keep calm?

And I know some of you might say, "Be Grateful That You Have A Job"... I am grateful, but I'm not happy here.

[smoothy]

Well, start by not focusing on the better places... but think more of just how much worse it could be, and is for many people. Framing it in your mind the correct way helps with how you perceive it to be. Besides 4 months is nothing if will pass in the blink of an eye if you don't dwell on the negatives of this place as it appears you are doing.

Trust me.. having been in some pretty bad places before it helps put things in correct perspective. And while I may NOT be in the Best place I've ever worked... its definitely not the worst either.

And the difference here is you are a temp... and I assume they are not. You are contracted to do certain things... and those may not be part of their job descriptions.

[Devorameira]

It's tough when you're working and everyone else is sitting around doing little to nothing, but with being a temp there's nothing at all that you can do about it.

Just focus on doing your job and time will fly by much faster than you think.

[HotPotato2009]

Thanks Dev :-)