Phew, what a day, the first day of 4 days interview at Cambridge University, not only am I away from my family home for 4 nights, but I am to be interviewed by university deans and professors with the view to acceptance into the University next summer... That's the position I find myself in, a daunting one and with so much at stake it's difficult to relax i...
Leila bit her lip as she stepped into the elevator, nudging her purse onto her shoulder. God, these heels are killing me. The Louboutins had come out of their hiding spot in her closet; she'd spent the last of her severance pay - that is, the part that didn't go to student loans - on them. They were her good luck charm. Or at least that's what she told herse...
1. ...of fish and bicycles It was a new job or rather it was her first real job after university and Pam was thrilled. She had been invited for the interview on the strength of her CV and references and had been appointed to the new research team straight away. It really was a 'dream job'. Her new employer was one of the new Biotech Research Companies that...
Vida had started getting bolder with Katie, her new employee who she had believing every word she said was true. Vida knew Katie was a little ditsy and did not listen to everything said in her initial interview when she was hired at Xetymew, a large computer corporation. This allowed Vida to come up with anything and say it was in the company code and was pr...
After such a special and mesmerizing weekend, Jane and the other women had to return to work. It was Monday morning and the intern was back at the office. Veronica and Jane had a hard time not smiling and blushing at each other. Monica and Ashley were having trouble staying focused at work as well. Nobody noticed but they were constantly biting their lips t...
After graduating from college, I was drowning in debt, owing more than $15,000 in student loans and grants. The bank threatened to freeze my account if I did not pay everything back in three months and the minimum wage job I had made that almost impossible. My parents could not help, having to deal with their own expenses and I was hesitant to borrow money f...
"Thank you for coming to Elite Treats and we hope to see you again soon," Lizbet Tennyson smiled as she handed the 20-something woman her package. So far, working at Elite had been just the tonic she had needed after her marriage ended. Everyone who came into the story always seemed to be in a good mood, dressed nicely. As a matter of fact, most of Elite's c...
Her eyes pierced into me like emeralds. As I sat diagonally from her on the patio, I couldn’t escape their invasion. What was she thinking? The conversation had gone a bit dry, and my mouth was hurting from feigning too many courtesy smiles. Frank had been talking incessantly, cracking jokes that became more and more absurd, but we all had smoked some hash,...
It was the kind of night when all you wanted to do was curl up on the sofa and watch a movie or read a romantic story. Outside the wind and the rain was pounding the house which was creaking and groaning like an old man trying to make a mad dash to the bathroom. But this house was, while very old, was solid and secure and nothing would damage it except perha...
For Hanna 'We're very much impressed with your skill set Yvonne, so many programmers these days just learn the fashionable languages like C++, Pearl and the like but you have taken the trouble to become proficient with machine code and assembler. These will be needed in this job as there is quite a large amount of legacy code to update. So you make an excel...