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My Career

So today is a big day in my life, I guess. I was thinking about it yesterday and realized that since I am considering teaching English as my profession for the rest of my life, today would be the first day of my career. Today I began my first day of classes, well, paid classes. My first class is with a company called Louis Vuitton. Yeah, that´s right, the Louis Vuitton. I am teaching two of their executives a few times a week. So this morning I woke up, put on some makeup, and finally wore my new pinstriped pants. I got to LV and waited outside for 20 minutes before anyone showed up. When my students finally did show up, they cancelled class. They said something about having flown in from Brasil the night before, and quick as that I was back on a bus headed home. The beauty of the story is that these clients cancel often, or so I am told, and when they cancel the day of class, i still get paid. So basically, i just got $30 dollars for waiting 20 minutes and talking 5 minutes. So far, my first day of my career is going pretty well I would say.

Comments

Anonymous said…
that's a bit disappointing! i hope tomorrow is more fulfilling (getting paid for doing nothing isn't so bad, but it's got to be more satisfying if you actually get to show your stuff)

love
mom
The mini ninja said…
No Way! Are you seriously getting paid to teach LV people? What are you teaching them? How'd you land that?

I love you. =D

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