Nikki Looks For Work

Sitting at home on her couch drinking a Miller light, Nikki made two decisions. She was gonna get her waist back. Couldn't be like the guy drinking a slimfast for a beverage with his dinner and thinking he was eating healthy. The beer had to go, especially for breakfast. Also, Nikki was going to get a job. No, Nikki was going to get a job today. She had bought a Sunday paper yesterday for the classifieds. Even though the job section was all of two pages she was determined to find something she could do. No longer would she sit at home in a world of despair. But with the way the Want Ads were looking, maybe she was only fooling herself. Very bleak looking indeed. Administrative assistants just weren’t much in demand these days. Her current skills made her future look disheartening. It wasn't always this way. She had moved out west to live with an Uncle stationed here will in the service. She had entered the local college and started on a business degree. All that changed with the arrival of a baby. It had been a struggle ever since. Most days she would have given up by now, but not today. She was gonna give this faith thing a try.

“Couriers Wanted, Must have own Car” is what the ad read. She didn’t have a car. That wasn’t true; she did have a car, the one she had taken over the payments for, from her daughter. The car Lisa had bought for her boyfriend. That you can’t buy happiness was a lesson some had learn the hard way. It was a lesson Nikki sometimes had a hard time remembering also. Her daughter had moved back home to Carolina, but she hadn’t followed. Home would be too painful of a reminder of her life’s failures.  She wasn’t sure what couriers did for a living, but she was gonna give it a try. She could picture herself being on the move up in no time. Time to get dressed and apply for a job.