Personal Narrative: A Career In The Workplace

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The economy is getting better but it’s still rough. I know it’s still rough because everyone has two jobs. Let me give you an example, I ordered food from this place one time and it took an hour for the food to get delivered. An hour. That’s pretty standard somehow for internet delivery, and it was ok, because the food was delicious. But the second time, the second time that I ordered from them, the delivery took over two hours. Two hours. When you order food, you are already hungry, and I can handle an hour but two hours? Two hours? Let’s just say I was a little bit upset. So finally, after two hours, the guy gets to the door and he doesn’t hand me my food and leave, no, he holds onto to it. He’s standing in my doorway, looking past me, at …show more content…

I know I shouldn’t but I do and the drivers are really interesting. One time I met a guy who worked in publishing in Japan and France for his entire life, and even if they didn’t have some kind of interesting job, they usually, have an a good story at least. This one guy though. He had two jobs. Uber is great, because I just press a thing on my phone and a guy in a car picks me up and I go to a place. Simple. This guy picks me up though, and we have the usual small talk, how are you? I’m fine. Hahaha. But he wasted no time, after we had dispensed with pleasantries he got right into it. He looked into the backseat. Into my eyes, and he said “Hey man, you need a mortgage?” Needless to say, this took me by surprise, and I almost said yes. He said it so confidently I was like “Maybe I do? I don’t own a house or really understand what a mortgage is for but why not? Let’s get a mortgage.” This is dangerous. It’s gotten me into trouble before. One time I was walking home and a guy jumped out of an alleyway and yelled “Give me your phone number!” and I looked at him and I said two two six… I gave it to him. He asked for it, and I gave it to him. And that’s apparently how you get something from me. I respond well to

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