I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm a porter at my current job. Basically, I'm a glorified janitor-for-hire when apartment complexes need extra staff for a few days. For the past few weeks, I've been working at this complex to be (still under construction, not even habitable until March), helping with some really poorly planned and timed promotions. From the sound and looks of things, this place was in such dire need of assistance the first weekend (And since), that pretty much everyone my company could spare was sent over to help; they even hired a few people on the spot to fill the needed positions.
Our job has been to assemble promotional lanyard/key chains and hand them out to students at a nearby university, as the students are the primary target of this apartment complex. The people I've worked with, who range from leasing/housing career veterans, to the aforementioned hired out of necessity, a few students looking for a start in the, leasing/staffing business, and others like me, who want a flexible schedule more than anything (Though I seem to be the only porter on site). The vets have assured me that this is the only time in their careers, and likely mine, that a job like this will come along. Personally, I'm cool with it; the first day of the job was raining hard, and my first thought upon waking was "God damn it, looks like I'm sweeping in this all day", so I'll gladly take the change of pace.
I gotta say, while I'm still anti-social enough to have trouble handing said lanyards out on street corners (which isn't helped by knowing how annoyed I'd be if someone put something in my face while I'm walking to class), I've loved getting to meet all these coworkers I didn't know I had. One of them, a wonderful older woman who's made a career out of this business, has even hooked me up with another company to work for so I'll have less down time. I've also met a guy who uses this job to fund his own music career (hip hop, electronic stuff), a mobile app/case designer, and some wonderful women my age, who just want a job that works around school. I've managed to make some useful business contacts, as well as what I'm hoping will be a... friendlier, let's say, relationship with one of the aforementioned young women (theater major, not into bars/drinking, redhead... oh yeah
). For an unorthodox assignment, this is really working in my favor.
