The Dating Bender by Christina Julian

Author:Christina Julian [Julian, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

A couple of weeks into my gig at Sure Shot, which I liked to think placed me at the heart of New York’s entertainment scene, it became obvious that living in Manhattan was going to be much more expensive than I had planned. This observation was worsened by the fact that my paltry NetSocial severance had dwindled quickly. But I reassured myself that the decision to ditch technology in favor of a creative career would be so worth it. Like Oprah always said, you couldn’t put a price on discovering your bliss. So what if I had to take a non-paying gig that relegated me to doing meaningless tasks like logging film stock and ordering stamps for the office? If that was what I had to do to break into the movie biz, so be it.

But then I received my landlord’s hate mail, reminding me that my second month’s rent was due. Or as she put it, “Pay up now or get out.” She furthered her point with six exclamation points. Clearly, she was out of touch; nobody uses exclamation points anymore. It was emoji all the way baby.

Two hours, countless emails, and three homemade martinis later, I landed a phone interview. Oh, how I loved Craigslist, my go-to guide for all of life’s conundrums. The posting made it sound like a dream job, working part-time for a communications mogul named Molly from the Upper East Side. She traveled the globe coaching some of the most renowned on-air talents in the world. A martini-induced sound sleep would ensure I aced the interview tomorrow.

After an easy-breezy meeting, Molly hired me part-time to work out of her home office. The way she explained it I would be doing light marketing.

By day two on the job, I realized that “light marketing” meant instilling a heavy-duty overhaul on her day-to-day personal life. She was a bit of a head case, yes, but she paid well, so I’d vowed to stick it out. The flexible schedule also granted me enough time to still swing the internship.

When I told my brother about the new job, he agreed to brief my parents on the career shift over the phone to avoid another full-scale meltdown. They still hadn’t forgiven me for skirting the annulment, so this new bit of intel would likely fuel their annoyance with me.

Despite Jimmy’s smooth investment banker talk, the news apparently broke them, especially when he explained how I willingly left the traditional work world in favor of “nutball entertainment,” as my father had put it.

My mother connected her own dots and assumed I turned to a life of porn on the streets that surrounded Times Square. She told Jimmy to remind me that porn and divorce were mortal sins and I still couldn’t come home until I got an annulment and went to confession. PS, she still loved me, but not until I paid penance for my past.

After one week in Molly’s office, it became clear why she paid me such a hefty sum.

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