I've sold my soul :/

Over the last few weeks I've had temporary work at a fairly large solicitors company who are based here in Southampton. The first task involved opening and reading about 20,000 word documents, and editing them in different ways. I'm sure my eyes were starting to dissolve by the time I was done, but I did it in half the time they were expecting (that's what you get when the temp agency sends a compsci grad instead of the normal temp workers...). Which meant that I cut the wages I was expecting in half. Go me!

However, the same solicitors had another temp opening which I've been doing since then, which involves doing general admin (opening post, filing, folding and enveloping post, as well as doing basic research and creating oodles of documentation) work in the Mortgage Repossessions dept. Which, really, is to be expected given our current economic climate.

One of the temp workers who had the job before be apparently left because "the job was depressing". I laughed the first time I heard it, but after a few weeks here I'm much more sympathetic. Creating and sending out letters that say "Pay up or we're gonna take your house" (translated from solicitor-speak to everyday English) isn't actually all that fun. What's worse is how much the "fee earners" (those who actually deal with the courts and agents and bailiffs to get the repossession done) seem to enjoy doing it.


Ah well, it's money. Something which, given that it's now been almost a year since I finished my final year exams at Uni, I have a dire lack of.

Here's hoping my interview at Accenture on Friday goes well!