Message #4209

[icebreakerpenguin]

GoldenEarring, just to let you know, someone else said they make $8.25.  To give you an idea, I currently make about $24,000.  I took a cut because I was doing temp jobs and wanted permanent.  I wanted to learn the law so I could get that "golden" job.  My co-worker at the paper company I formerly worked at recommended this firm because she belongs to a legal professional chapter (which is very similiar to IAAP) in which most of the secretaries at this firm are a member of.  They're are nice people.  I was making more in most of my temp jobs here.  At my peak when I was an executive assistant in a smaller city I made $33,000 (that's the job I was fired at because my boss forced me to sign a document early in my employment because I had asked about advancement stating that if I talked about my career again he would terminate me - if you can't talk to you boss about career you're doomed!).  In that same job, I went from making about $18,000 to the $33,000 in less than 3 years -- what does that tell you?!  The boss I had after that when I took an office manager was worse -- a whole new story!  Anyway, I've been told by others that my resume is impressive but I'm not getting offers from the positions I've been interviewing with.  I don't know!  Remember the "enthusiasm" question I brought up here at the forum?  I'm going to stop rambling now...