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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.