Just This Once by Rosalind James

Author:Rosalind James
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

She could look, at least, Hannah told herself after she hung up. That didn’t mean she had to do anything. She typed “New Zealand work visa” into her search engine. Her heart began to beat harder as she clicked on “Immigration New Zealand,” then moved on to “Temporary Work Visas.” She found that to have the best chance to be hired by an employer, her occupation would have to be included in the “Essential Skills List.” She could barely click through the lists of specialties and subspecialties that made up the list. Once she had, she sat staring at her computer. There it was. Marketing Specialist. Specifically, brand manager, product manager, category manager.

She stood up, walked around the room. Came back to her computer, and typed “Marketing Jobs New Zealand” into the search engine. There were the sites. And the jobs.

All right, she told herself. There were jobs. That didn’t mean she would find one she liked, or that they’d hire her. But she could check. She pushed the down arrow and started scrolling.

She spent as many hours at the office as always, the rest of the week. But she could feel half her attention being pulled away. For the first time, she wasn’t totally focused on her career at TriStyle Woman, and it unsettled her. Every evening found her on New Zealand job sites. And updating her resume.

It had been a while, she thought wryly the first time she pulled up the ancient document. She had read that resumes should be updated annually, but had never seen the point. She hadn’t applied for a job since she was a senior in college. What would it be like now, more than seven years later, to interview?

It would be easier, she realized. She had plenty of experience and skills to bring to the table. This time, she would be interviewing potential employers as well, instead of just answering their questions and hoping she passed. It would have to be the right job, the right company, or she wasn’t doing this. This couldn’t just be about moving to New Zealand to be with Drew. It had to be about making a change for the better in her work life too.

Susannah called on Tuesday, as promised, to check on her progress, and was delighted to find that Hannah had actually started looking into the job market. But Drew didn’t call. Hannah was grateful at first, since she still felt so uncertain about the whole prospect. By Thursday, though, she had begun to panic. Maybe he’d changed his mind. Her imagination leaped ahead. He was regretting what he had said. She would make the decision, and there would be an awkward pause before he told her that he had met someone new. Or that he had decided it wouldn’t work.

After a restless night, she decided she had to call him and find out. If he didn’t want her to come anymore, she needed to know that now, not after she had begun applying for jobs.

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