An eight hour office day...

Week Eight...

I have become accustomed to making sure I bring in at least two of my own career profiles to do each Friday. I know this helps the girls out a lot as they have been running low on them over the past months...but I’m also hoping Linda thinks I have initiative and direction... fingers crossed.
So my stories this week were three careers stories... One on my boyfriend’s boss. He is the owner of a fresh produce store and very successful. The most difficult part of his story was that I know him quite well so I found myself putting information in that I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t know him personally... this helped to fill in facts in gaps he had left in some answers, but I guess it would have been interesting to see how someone else would have written the story, had they not known him.
The next story was much more difficult...it was on an insolvency accountant who was a partner of a local firm... his answers were written exactly as a lawyer/accountant would write things and it was difficult to translate them into normal vernacular so the everyday person could understand. I did my best and I thought it turned out ok, though I wasn’t thrilled by my lead...or any of the story really.
The final story was an interesting one... a woman had contacted Linda earlier in the week asking if we could write a story on her... she was a nurse for about 10 years and had just started studying medicine when she gave up both to start a family. She then went to visit her aunty in Sydney for a week (whom she had..in a strange/long story... studied nursing with) and was encouraged to start painting. She took this up in her spare time and began selling paintings, starting a small business from home while she looked after her young children.
All three stories took a while to come together and the worst part was that Linda was so busy the whole day she didn’t have a chance to check anything.... but I guess I’ll find out how things went next week!