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Quotes About Temping

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
who doesn't know what she wants in the long term so takes short-term temping contracts, saves, goes off backpacking like a teenager, returns to England full of stories but her career hasn't moved on
~ Bernardine Evaristo
I was temping at Harrods. I'd wake from the double bed I shared with my best friend, leave the house in a slick-looking trench coat and polished brogues without a hair out of place. I was complimented for looking so presentable.
~ Ncuti Gatwa
I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
~ David Autor
After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.
~ Nick Mohammed
Temping is the worst. I would rather starve and be homeless than nanny or temp again.
~ Nikki Glaser
I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.
~ Jessa Crispin
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
~ Kate Walsh
I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.
~ Todd Barry