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Do you ever hear people talking about how difficult it is to find a temporary job these days?

Well, Dan Siddiqui, 27, a Californian economics graduate, has just found 50 temporary jobs in 50 weeks in each of the 50 US states. Now that takes some doing!

Just 12 months ago Dan was homeless, unemployed and had student debts of almost £100,000. He had tried his best to get a graduate job but had been rejected from 40 interviews.

So, after 3 years of claiming benefits, Dan decided to take a different approach to the world of work by aiming to get a temporary job in a different state every week.

Along the way Dan landed temporary positions as a jazz conductor, a TV weatherman in Ohio, a wedding planner in Las Vegas, a model in North Carolina and a border patrol agent in Arizona.

Dan said: “I wanted to experience life and find a way of beating the odds. I guess I was a bit like Forrest Gump, except instead of walking across America I wanted to work across it to find the answer. The jobs were all so different from each other. I earned as little as £60 in Georgia as a peanut sheller in one week, and earned £1,225 in Minnesota as a medical device manufacturer in another. My favourite job was probably as a bartender in Louisiana, in the middle of Mardi Gras. My least favourite was trying to be a lobster-man. I learned that I got very seasick, and that lobsters do a lot of pinching.”

Dan is now putting pen to paper to write a book about his experiences and publishers are tripping over each other to sign him up.

We can’t guarantee we’ll be able to find you a holiday job as a jazz conductor or a deep sea salvager but we do advertise hundreds of temporary jobs on our gap year and temporary jobs search pages.