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- Authors: Tamie Dearen
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INTERVIEW
Anne tried vainly to stop her knees from trembling, pushing on her legs
with her hands. But her hands were shaking too. Was it because the
reception area was too cold? Or was it because her rivals were too
intimidating? She shivered in her short-sleeved beige cotton blouse and
straight brown linen skirt as she glanced around, sizing up the competition.
Why on earth did I ever agree to come all the way to New York and do
this interview? I don’t have a chance of getting the job.
The room was filled with twenty-somethings. Nine other women and
two men were vying for the same executive assistant position. Without
exception, the other applicants were impeccably dressed in smart business
attire and carrying leather attachés that stored their MacBooks, iPads, and
iPhones. Somehow each one looked beautiful and confident, as if stepping
out of the pages of some style magazine.
She attempted to smooth her skirt, hopelessly creased from the long cab
ride across Manhattan. Why had she chosen to wear linen, knowing how
badly it wrinkled? But she knew the answer. When the recruiter called
about an interview in two days’ time, she’d packed hurriedly, throwing in
every skirt she owned—a total of three. Only after arriving at the hotel in
New York, two hours before her appointment, did she realize that only one
skirt still fit her. And that one only barely.
For the fifteen years since her husband died in an accident with a drunk
driver, Anne Best had thrown herself into raising her two daughters. But
once both daughters were out of the house and independent, she discovered
she’d lost interest in ordinary activities. Activities like eating and shopping.
So she had no alternative but to wear the linen skirt, which hung loosely on
her hips and fell to an unflattering length just below her knees.
She tried to look nonchalant while grabbing the yellow legal pad that
was slipping from her lap. But when the pencil slipped from the pages of
the pad and rolled across the floor, she cringed at the disdainful glances
directed her way. Why didn’t she have some sort of briefcase like the
others? To one particularly haughty glare, she returned a scalding look like
she would give a misbehaving child in public. The girl gasped and quickly
averted her eyes.
At two o’clock on the dot, a pair of large carved wooden double-doors
swung open and a secretary invited the first candidate to enter the inner
sanctum. The beautiful blonde’s three-inch heels clicked on the marble as
she strode confidently into the interview.
From her manicured nails to her
elegantly stylish coif and vogue skirt suit, she looked flawless, and Anne
hated her. Maybe she didn’t exactly hate her, but she hated how old and
frumpy she felt in comparison. They were all so young! Of course, they
looked beautiful and perfect and firm everywhere. She’d been like that…
twenty years ago. It was disheartening to realize her age, forty-five,
probably made her old enough to have parented most of the other
candidates.
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