The Stories of Alice Adams by Alice Adams

Author:Alice Adams [Adams, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79814-5
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Looking for Work

The job search is something that I try not to think about, along with sex, general deprivation. It is what I should be doing, naturally; and in theory that is what I do all day, look for work. However, these days I seldom get much further than the want ads in the paper, those columns and columns of people saying they want secretaries, or sales people. And no one, not in a million years, would think of hiring me for either of those slots. Secretaries are all about the same size, very trim and tidy-looking, very normal, and so are people in sales—just ask my mother.

Sometimes an ad for a waitress sounds possible, and that is something I’ve done; I had a part-time waitress job the summer I got out of Washington High. But in those days I was thinner, and just now my confidence is pretty low. In my imagination, prospective employers, restaurant owners take one look at me and they start to sneer: “We don’t even have the space for a person your size,” or some such snub.

Instead I swim, and swim, swim—for as long as I can, every day. I can feel my muscles stretching, pulling, getting longer, in the warm strong water.

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