Life as an office temp – that’s all just making coffee and photocopying right? Well that’s certainly the stereotype, and perhaps it’s true at the big corporations where temps are often treated as if they had no skills more advanced than finding the nearest Starbucks. But I’ve found, having done my share of temping first to fund a gap year and now a degree, that smaller companies tend to treat temps less as assistants and more as members of the team.
Since coming to Pillar for the first time in 2007, I have worked variously on marketing campaigns, web design, the helpdesk, and even producing video tutorials for Time Manager. I’ve had to learn fast, but I can’t think of anywhere else that I’d have had the opportunity to develop skills as diverse as video editing and writing HTML, or learnt to use software from Camtasia Studio to OnTime. In fact a couple of weeks here adds more to my CV than I’d imagine months would anywhere else, not to mention the satisfaction of being given responsibility for my own mini-projects.
An easy, mindless holiday job? Not so much. More exciting than making tea? Definitely.
Lucy Penny
Ian Matthews
Dave Penny
Carl
Netta Keogh
