Beth blinked at her computer. She re-read her mail again. The words didn’t change, as she thought it would. It read, ‘Congratulations! You’re hired.’ Beth clasped her hands together and ran out of her room and hugged her mother.
Beth had been job hunting for more than a year after college. It had been an ordeal, especially under the gaze of her parents. But, where else could she stay? She had to move into her parents’ house after she completed college and after an extensive job hunt with multiple interviews and heartbreaks – she finally had landed a job offer. But there was one concern.
Beth faced her father, ‘Dad, I have to move to `the city.’
Her dad looked at her and said, ‘Yeah! Seems so. But all the good jobs are in the city.’
Beth looked down. Her family was not the most affluent, financially. Her dad’s savings ended up in the house they bought in the suburbs. The EMIs were still high and her mom was a homemaker. Beth knew it would be difficult for her dad to support her set up in the city.