Christine was a go getter. She had short, auburn hair, a sweet, slightly crooked smile, and a perfectly pug nose. Her cuteness, however, was far outweighed by her sensible approaches to her life, her job and her future. All of her life, she had used her intelligence and her wit to maneuver her through life with the ease of a swan on the water. Her calm demeanor and versatile personality easily won her many friends and associates.
Two years ago, she had graduated with a Bachelors degree in Language Arts from her local University. At that time she went about deciding in her mind the path that her future would take. Six months out of school, Christine landed herself a job as an assistant secretary. Her strong interpersonal skills and commendable writing abilities garnered her a promotion, and then another. By the end of her second year, Christine was looking at management, and she was ecstatic. Her dreams were coming true even faster than she had anticipated.
Real estate office management required so much effort. And though the promotion came with a hefty pay raise, at the age of 26, Christine was unsure of just how capable she would be in her new real estate office management position, though in her heart of hearts, she knew that she could handle it. She was uncomfortable with the fact that she would be supervising people who were twenty years her senior, as well, but they were all close within the ranks of the office hierarchy, and she felt that they would support her in her new real estate office management position.
In addition, part of her duties in real estate office management would include participating in off site trainings, some of which would take her on business trips out of town to places like Boston and Chicago. This excited her very much. She had never ventured too far from her home in Central Missouri, and she was ready to see some new sights.
Christine was sure that she would be able to meet the requirements in regards to the accounting aspects of the job, and she was fairly confident in her ability to coordinate meetings and events for the agents who worked there. She had always considered herself a very organized person, almost to a fault. As a young child, her room was never messy. Everything was always in order, down to the last book on the shelf standing up like a straight soldier. She chuckled as she remembered alphabetizing them by name. Working in real estate office management would allow her to put those organizational skills to good use, for once.
Christine was excited to walk into work under her new title. She had never had so much responsibility over other people. She knew that this was going to be a step in the right direction for her. As she walked into her very own office that first morning, she smiled with delight as she saw a small vase of flowers from the office secretaries that she had been working with for the last couple of years. Tears welled up in her eyes as she read the card. Congratulations, Christine! We have all watched you work so hard these last two years. We know you have got what it takes! Go get em, girl! Next to the vase was a box of brand new business cards along with a silver holder.
She took her small box of personal items, including a picture of her Mom and Dad, and a small bobble-head kitty that her niece had given her for a birthday gift, arranged them all neatly on her desk, and set herself on the task of going over some purchase orders left there by one of the vendors.
