The Temp Survival Guide: How to Prosper as an Economic Nomad of the Nineties

by Brian Hassett

The burgeoning number of temporary employess, freelancers, and home-officer workers represents the biggest change in employment patterns since the advent of the assembly line. This survival kit if... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080651843X
• ISBN13: 9780806518435
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Have Fun -- Will Work!

This is hilarious!!Not only is temping the best way to make a living, as I've now found out, but this is the best way to learn about it! It's super funny, but it also goes through all the steps one-by-one. I brought it with me to the job interview with certain pages marked and it kept me in the right frame of mind before I interviewed -- and I aced it! I've been working ever since. I still carry it around with me in my bag like a dog-eared security blanket!Anyway, if you have any doubts at all about temping, this will alleviate them and get you working immediately. Or at least it did for me!Write on!

Loved IT !!! One of the BEST BOOKS (Funniest) I'VE EVER READ

This book will have you in stitches.He's got a line in there, "What .. reading a book on temping. What will you read next .. a book on how to catch a bus." Well, it is pretty close to that one. Don't read this book if you are steadily employed and are thinking about quitting your job .. because the author makes temping sound too appealing and YOU WILL QUIT YOUR JOB!This is a GREAT BOOK if you FIND YOURSELF IN THIS SITUATION. He sort of skips over some big areas like the fact that despite discrimination laws, clients suggest .. er hint, most of the time they want females (95% of the time) etc. etc. And also the fact that there's a lot of kissing up to get work. If you don't have ace computer skills, a people personality, persistance and the ability to pucker-up .. well then, maybe this isn't the occupation for you.

This is a must read for anyone in the temping industry.

This is the most entertaining book I've picked up with the objective of learning something. I temped for two years and I was laughing my way through the entire book which I read in two busrides on the way to my temp assignment. I saw a young man who had just finished a hard day on a temp assignment as well and I showed him a quote out of Brian Hassett's book that totally cheered him up. I read this book over and over whenever I need to energize for the next day I have to face as a temp. If you haven't read this book and you temp, it's well worth it to spend your lunch hour buying it!

Witty AND Informative!!

From front to cover this book grabbed my attention. I stayed up all night reading this witty book. Brian really opened my eye to becoming a temp while fufilling my own dream of running a home business. So now I'm parttime temp and full time HAPPY!!!

So accurate that it's like Dilbert!

What struck me the most about the book, is the underlying attitude of temping, and how perfectly it comes through in the writing. Brian has captured the essence of life as a temp, exactly! I've been temping for years, and agree completely with the benefits and advantages of life as a temp, and now I pass copies of this book on to anyone I know who comes to me complaining about their full-time job.