Enamored
by Carolyn Hooke
The essentials of this story are all truthful. One of my very good friends worked as an office manager for a clinical psychologist. A very conflicted young man came to her clinic one day and began a case with her group. Fortunately he had a patient and understanding counselor to work through matters with him. And, as you will see why, it became our favorite topic as it unfolded over the next few months.
Cubicle
“What are you doing for lunch?”
That was the earliest conversation I could recall having with her. She had been hired about a year after me and placed in the same business group. Initially, she’d been paired with a more senior colleague to train. I’d just turned 23 and she was one of our a recent college graduate hires.
The firm handled the registration and licensing concerns for firms operating in multiple states: compiling business documents, forms, and records and making certain that all requirements were followed. Within it, recent young college graduates were paired alongside a crowd of older workers and slowly and steadily built their professional resumes in hopes of eventually landing a better job, or, they worked there until they became a member of the seasoned crowd.