I’ve moved around too many times, and as a result of that, I’ve worked for many temporary employment agencies. Some of the jobs are fun, some of the jobs are boring, and some of them just downright sucked.  Cold calling is something that is just no fun to do. People on the other end of the phone don’t like it, employees aren’t very eager to do it, and it rarely yields any results.

I was working for a cosmetics company that were in the process of recruiting individuals to come for a clinical study for hair, skin, or other cosmetic products. If we didn’t fill our recruitment allotment, we had to start making cold calls. There was a database of people they recruited from, but we always inevitably ended up cold calling random people. I also got to ask survey questions to people in person to make sure they were eligible for the case study. This was a lot more fun than cold calling, but still asked some very personal questions to people that made them uncomfortable.

Some of the other temporary jobs I did were: washing walls in  a glass factory, building cabinetry, setting up chairs, managing department of economic security office organization, small engine repair, document scanning, and food delivery.