After university, ("I couldn't get into drama school," she says) Greig took a typing course and temped for a while, until she got the part of Debbie Aldridge in the Archers in 1991, the long-running role that meant she didn't have to become a full-time secretary.
After training at Drama Studio London, McIntyre temped for years.
She has been temping for two years, which has given her the chance to try out different kinds of accounts -- "dating before I get married," she said -- and "branding" herself as an adaptable worker.
I almost stopped going for castings because I was upsetting the people I was temping for.
Beard I am temping for an agency specialising in crime prevention.
Go temping for a while, or volunteering if you can afford it.
If you really can't find the job you want, or have no idea what you want to do, temp for a while, or do voluntary work.
Yasmin pointed out that Jascha had a computer, I had £1,000 redundancy money and I didn't have to start temping for a month.
His hero, a fallen English professor, is reduced to temping for the Texas Department of General Services, thrust into peculiar territory that includes spectral office workers and an eerie corpse in the next cubicle.
