Employed and, well, not loving it:

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I got a job. It's through a temp agency, working as a file clerk for a law firm. The work itself is pretty boring: filing, mailing, making coffee, the kind of stuff that I expected my $130,ooo education would more or less place me out of. I don't even mind that so much, though; what I really mind is the fact that there isn't really much work for me to do of any sort.

Case in point, I've been working at the job for two days. Today, I got to work at 8:30, made coffee, unloaded the dishwasher, and generally putzed around until 9:00. Did the morning filing, mailed out the last few invoices for the month, and took the mail out till 10. Cleaned out my desk and did what filing came in from 10 to 12(!). Sat at the reception desk for an hour, went to lunch. It's like 2:15. I got about 8 more files for the day. After 5, I cleaned up.

One assumes that I'm only going to get faster at this job. As it is, I worked about half the day today. This is beyond boring.

Still no start date and no prospect in sight. The current plan is to work here for three more weeks, then go visit T-- and Ireland, come back and hopefully have a clearer idea of what is happening with my state of employment.

I need to wait on one email that will hopefully come either tomorrow or Monday. Assuming it doesn't say something like, expect to hear from us in the next week, I'm booking my ticket. Right now it's $450 inclusive on STATravel, and I don't want to lose that fare.

About 10 minutes after I wrote this, I got a call from the temp agency. Apparently I am no longer employed. The company said I wasn't working out. I did everything they asked, but didn't really seek out more work or make any effort to appear busy, so maybe that's it. Or maybe they expected me to know how to do everything in their office (things like where the faxes go, how to put soap in the dishwasher, how they want their files made) since they seemed to expect me to learn by osmosis. I was the fourth person from the temp agency rejected by the law firm, so the temp guy wants a report on what's going on there from me. I'm really marvelling in the irony of being fired from the job that I was so far overqualified to do when I wasn't fired from the computer programming job that I had no skills for. And excited that I get to sleep in. I honestly thought I would be more upset the first time I got fired.