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Katherine Webber's Major In What You Love

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A college degree is supposed to guarantee success in adulthood; at least that is what high school counsellors convey to stressed out teenagers. “Major in what you love” was a popular phrase that Katherine Webber heard as a teenager. At thirty-two years old, Katherine is bright, educated and pretty, but she’s had a bad life, self admittedly due to the many bad decisions she's made over her adult life. Having majored in English Katherine dreams of being an editor she has an insatiable thirst for adventure and lives to share stories with people around the world. However, due to her lack of experience and the shortage of editor jobs in Toronto, Ontario Katherine settled for a dead end customer service job at a call centre. Katherine's boss Bob was rather fed up with her brazen attitude, he had received numerous complaints from exasperated …show more content…

Katherine laughed “You're kidding right?” although there was a hint of doubt in her voice. “We are fed up with your attitude, after numerous complaints from customers we have come to this conclusion, to put this frankly Ms.Webber you are too bright for this job” Bob replied. Katherine's stormy green eyes seethed, the audacity this company had to fire her! After she had dedicated five years of her life to serving the company! She was shaking from rage in a blind fury she whipped off the cheap, plastic ear piece and name tag that were company policy and threw them at Bob. Bob flinched, he expected this much from Katherine he gestured to the security guards he had discreetly situated nearby. They placed a nondescript brown box on Katherine's desk for her to put her belonging’s in to. Katherine had dedicated her whole life to her career; or lack of one she never had time to settle down, get married and have kids. Her cubicle was sparse she had one photo frame with a picture of her parents, she smiled. She also picked up a trinket that her internet boyfriend sent her it was a whimsical resin, purple

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