Many of us still have no job at all other than casual temping.

Temping is what I can do right now. "

I managed a little temping but then my mother had a mild stroke and I wanted to care for her.

"Temping is much more competitive now," he said.

And Temping had no reserves at the Battle of Plowman's Bridge."

"And temping allows you to build skills you wouldn't normally aim to develop, such as learning to be very flexible, time management and how to prioritize."

Time magazine, for example, estimated in a prominent 1993 article entitled "The Temping of America" that contingent workers would make up half of the labor force by the year 2000.

Among them is Kirby Olson's novel Temping (Seattle: Black Heron Press, 2006) that features a young man working as a temporary secretary who is looking for a little more from life.

Without being vain, she knew she was a good secretary with excellent qualifications, and if the worst came to the worst she could always do some temping for a few months until the right job turned up.

This hiatus contributed to Hart's late-developer status; she didn't start acting till her mid-twenties and finally ditched the temping in 2005, when she got a role in the cultish sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive.

Packer's quick gift for capturing a character's voice infuses the novel with a generous cast of memorable friends: Mike and Carrie's Madison crowd and the temping, proofreading, dowager-escorting artist wannabes with whom Carrie shares a New York apartment.

After taking a temping job for eight months, she started a new degree at King's, this time in English language and communications.

Getting added to and prodded at sporadically in between gigs, temping jobs and attempts at sleeping.

I hadn't considered working for the FCO until I got the temping job here to save some money to go travelling, again.

She acquired an IBM golfball typewriter and did academic typing at home in the evenings and various well-paid temping jobs during the day.

It was incredibly bad for my self esteem and it was only through getting a string of rubbish temping job that I started to regain my confidence.

Temping jobs are traditionally secretarial but temps are always needed for clerical work and filing, as well as teaching, nursing, pharmaceuticals and school-meals supervision, for example.

"I spent a year and a half doing various temping jobs," says 25-year-old Howard de Podesta, who graduated in aerospace engineering from Bath, "before getting a job in product design in financial IT off the back of an internship.

Clive Kemp's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter, a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual, and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles.

"I was temping as a secretary out of the shelter," she said.

I've been hearing people moaning about that while I was temping.

Her dad has lost his job and is temping as a security guard in the British Museum.

"I began temping because I don't have any skills," she explained.

Highly skilled workers, like computer progammers, can do quite well temping.

After temping for a while, she finds a job doing research for a professor, which seems reasonably tolerable.

'If you only know what we know' remarks are temping for officials.

When I was 19, just out of school, I was temping a lot, making maybe three pounds an hour.

If they were temping.

She gets a physical body (unrecognizable to anyone who knew her before), but no salary, which means she has to go back to temping to get by.

Irene Pasternack, a technical writer at Microsoft, said she preferred temping to a permanent job.

"And still temping?

Erm the law college have expressed an interest, and I'm temping for them this week so I'll chase them.

Temping Fate (2006)

Getting added to and prodded at sporadically in between gigs, temping jobs and attempts at sleeping.

'Temping' in Battersea one could walk straight out of one job into another, whether as secretary or crane driver.

I was pretty much offered a position, to the point at which I'd told the company I was temping with that I would be leaving.

Erm yeah, tomorrow's basically horrendously busy and I'm temping the next two days, but I'm free in the evenings.

"They're temping in the daytime and waiting tables at night, and they don't have time to act," Ms. Galvez said.

Last fall, she began temping for J. P. Morgan Chase, and by the new year, she had been hired by the company's marketing department.

Temping for us combines the familiarity of one company with the variety of temping across a number of different departments.

Meanwhile, Ms. Beck is temping today at an insurance brokerage firm on Sixth Avenue across the street from Rockefeller Center.

Ms. Bauman was still temping at Cantor Fitzgerald in August 2001 when an easygoing executive offered her a long-term assignment, working as his secretary.

But mostly, Ms. Kirk and Mr. DeWolf are still temping, auditioning and hoping.

I'd like to know how many British Ambassadors were there temping these small firms to move to Tech City London (my guess, none) PS.

The head temps already are running higher than I'd like.

The temps pay nothing to the service, which makes its money from companies looking for workers.

Have you thought about getting a temp in to do her job, while she goes on a course?

Temps make up 2.3 million workers, or 1.9 percent of the work force.

"They never thought they'd be a temp in their whole life."

And temps, it must be said, need all the hope they can get.

Met office was saying temps were going to be coming up, fast.

Much different from the Indian summer temp of 70 during the day.

He picked up and heard the voice of the temp he'd been given.

Many companies find temps useful in other ways as well.

"I thought they had their own temp, and better than this."

Yesterday one of the office temps had called him Step.

The temps we're holding fire on them to know what to do with it.

For a moment 1 was temp to rush out the front door.

Time how long it takes for one to rise at room temp.

Call them, get on their books, do some temp or contract work.

To keep the band front and center they took temp jobs.

"They do the same jobs as the temps, give them direction and make sure the work is done right."

Then you should get the temp and the budget to cover it.

He's doing temp work and working in a nursing home.

The legal department itself has 25 to 30 temp lawyers at a given time, he said.

No, first call the temp agency and get them to send over someone else!

But often the temps are not looking for permanent jobs.

He began as a temp in 1999, went full time, and also became a partner this year.

Early fall temps are usually in the 80s but can reach 90s and at times has reached 100.