29.09.06
My feet are still shot.
And I’m saying that on the Friday after Career Fair Wednesday.
To most people, career fairs imply lots of free stuff. I’m not that lucky. In the morning, I was assigned to the loading bay — voluntarily, I’ll add. For a 7:30AM position, I was looking forward to little human interaction. But no, I had to become the team leader for the loading bay. In other words, supervise everyone else and in addition, be Mr. Meet-and-Greet for all the employers visiting the career fair. To be honest, showing a group of people where they’re going is easy. Look like you know what you’re doing, and they’ll follow you like a herd of cows. Three hours of loading employers’ supplies onto carts and running up two floors’ worth of stairs while the carts were going on a comfortable elevator later, the loading bay had no further duties requiring any attention. So I got drafted for hospitality duty, basically making sure that the employers’ needs were met. Including sitting in for the Institute of Charted Accountants of Alberta and the David Thompson Health Region while their representatives were having lunch. I then got fifteen minutes of lunch around 1 o’clock-ish.
At three o’clock, representatives of the corporations present were tearing down quickly — I was back at the loading bay trying to manage things as best as possible, however, it gets rather difficult with only one cargo van and one shuttle bus (and roughly 70 corporations present, most with two or three representatives) At 16:30, however, we were all done and the last employer had been shipped off with all his stuff. Afterwards, well, let’s just say filling out reports is fun. I got home around six o’clock. Nearly an eleven-hour shift.
