Not all jobs are of the traditional 9-5, 40-hour-week, work-for-one-company-your-whole-life variety. Local staffing agencies are seeing more jobs surface that fit into other molds.

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For more than 22 years, Barbara Carmack has helped run her family's business - Roddy Staffing Services - to connect job applicants and client companies together.

Her mother started the company out of the family home more than 30 years ago, and since Carmack took over as president, she said she's seen the ups and downs of the economy firsthand as it plays out in her Ypsilanti office.

About 50 people a week show up looking for jobs, she said. Despite that, Carmack said, she's been seeing small bits of good news in recent months.

"It's been a really tough economy the last couple of years," Carmack said. "But I do see it turning, at least in my business here ... It just has a better feel, I feel more jobs opening."

While the local economy has been slumping for months - and economists expect the downturn to continue - local staffing services say they are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. More companies are willing to add more temporary jobs and possibly extend them, they said.

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