The Unemployed Life

Take a Holiday, Unemployed People!

Are you taking your own calls, drawing up your own memos, filing your own documents, buying your own office supplies? Why, then, this Administrative Professionals Day is for you!

Your hard work and that of those like you has been celebrated since 1952, when the holiday was created by Young & Rubicam exec Harry F. Klemfuss and the National Secretaries Association.

Here’s what you might do to celebrate:

• No sharpening pencils. Forget dulling tips and the high-maintenance pencil; go with ink. Let the ink run out. Use your computer, screw the empty ink cartridge in the printer. Better yet, just take a walk.
• No filing. Piles of papers can take on a certain shape that might be considered “downturn” art. Celebrate yours – don’t touch a thing.
• Order in. It might be cheaper to make your own lunch (or dinner or anytime-meal), but today, you deserve it: have someone else bring you your lunch.
• Let your calls go to voicemail. Okay, you probably already do this anyway. Do it with a vengeance today.
• Google your former assistant. Go on, have some fun. Surely they’re not doing any better than you.

Meanwhile, if you do wish you had some of that kind of help right about now, consider honing your own skills: join up at the International Association of Administrative Professionals.

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