Temp Agencies
May. 18th, 2005 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zesty_pintoLike the reverse policy of literary agents, I got called by a temp agency to go to their agency and fill out yadda-yadda-yadda. It turns out I have a typing speed of 88 wpm. Talk about freaky; last time I was tested I only clocked around 63.
I studied a bit on Powerpoint before I went, and Excel I had some foreground knowledge on (I actually ended up teaching my supervisor a few functions he didn't know). Man, let me tell you... What is so hard about PowerPoint? Compared to Hypercard, this thing's a cakewalk; no string functions, no bad ergonomics designs... animation effects are surprisingly easy to find, use, and coordinate... I can understand MS Word becoming a mouthful if you want to use EVERYTHING like mail merge, newsletter functions, and whatever else (which, by the way, I finally understand how to use EVERY DAMN THING ON IT), but PowerPoint shouldn't be considered *that* difficult to begin with since it's so specific and everything is so point-and-click happy. Geez.
No bites on the job market; maybe 40k is shooting too high? If people are so afraid to use Powerpoint, then I'm surprised at their lack of ingenuity.
Irregardless, it's back to Mandrashard. Did I mention how much I love not thinking about college anymore? Out of all my books, I kept Roy's God of Small Things, Gunesekera's postcolonial sci-fi(aka, someone to look up to), Heaven's Edge, and the collection of fairy tales from my children's lit course that includes all the weird stuff like Grimm and Perrault's works. Awesome stuff. :D
I forgot to sell The Bell Jar, and some they wouldn't accept again. I'm sorry, Morison, but I don't think you need to make anymore money by letting your publishers make a new cover edition of Sula!
I studied a bit on Powerpoint before I went, and Excel I had some foreground knowledge on (I actually ended up teaching my supervisor a few functions he didn't know). Man, let me tell you... What is so hard about PowerPoint? Compared to Hypercard, this thing's a cakewalk; no string functions, no bad ergonomics designs... animation effects are surprisingly easy to find, use, and coordinate... I can understand MS Word becoming a mouthful if you want to use EVERYTHING like mail merge, newsletter functions, and whatever else (which, by the way, I finally understand how to use EVERY DAMN THING ON IT), but PowerPoint shouldn't be considered *that* difficult to begin with since it's so specific and everything is so point-and-click happy. Geez.
No bites on the job market; maybe 40k is shooting too high? If people are so afraid to use Powerpoint, then I'm surprised at their lack of ingenuity.
Irregardless, it's back to Mandrashard. Did I mention how much I love not thinking about college anymore? Out of all my books, I kept Roy's God of Small Things, Gunesekera's postcolonial sci-fi(aka, someone to look up to), Heaven's Edge, and the collection of fairy tales from my children's lit course that includes all the weird stuff like Grimm and Perrault's works. Awesome stuff. :D
I forgot to sell The Bell Jar, and some they wouldn't accept again. I'm sorry, Morison, but I don't think you need to make anymore money by letting your publishers make a new cover edition of Sula!
