A 45 Pointer

Chapter 2- How's Work?

Sebastian

Well, as I mentioned, work is just working... simply. Currently, I'm head of finances at a law firm. It started off fun, and I thought it would be fun, but then 5 years rolled around, and I started to get bored. I was tired of being in the dark and following what needed to be done. I wanted to express myself.

I've been stuck in the same job since I was 26, and it's probably one of the reasons why I'm not married yet. I thought, "Oh, I make a billion dollars worth of money, I'll be swimming with girls." I'm not. It's just endless nights of work and I only go home at least once a few weeks or a month. Wall Street... he did not have the time for all this.

Right now, I'm contemplating whether to quit my job or not. I'm stable financially, but the minute I quit, the money would go out as fast as it would come in. Nothing's final until I come up with an essential plan. I'm thinking of dedicating my day to work, then nights to acting classes. You could say I'm rusty in my acting skills.

Okay, I did act when I was in high school, but it wasn't enough. I'm like most actors in a way; once I'm done with a role, I'm done with a role, I never look back. It's required to let go of a role; I mean look at Man on the Moon.

I got a Wall Street job because I had the balls to treat my interviewer like a piece of shit. Here's a cheat guide on how to get a job: "You want the job? Let's have an interview." Here are two alternate universes: one in which I do talk garbage to my boss and one in which I don't.

"So, tell me, Mr. Lockwood. Is it true that you were a stalker of your ex-girlfriend?" Say nothing, and be awkward about it, you're dead, he's shot you, you're gone, nothing.

"Yes, I was a stalker. In fact, I also once tried to burn her house down, because she was a blood-sucking diva. I'd have more money than I do now: zilch. And, in fact, I saw the ring. Why are you stuck to one? Divorce it. There are dime packs all over town. Some love it deep, go real deep." That's literally how it went: I made up a crime story on the spot, made bro-talk, and told him to divorce his wife. He just told me I was hired.

The point of this story is you'll never be hired anywhere if you just keep your head down and listen to everyone else but yourself. It took me a long time to realize that, and it took Elena a long time, but luckily, we had Revna.

Ahh, Revna. Revna Taurani. The apple of her mother's eye, and she was rotten to the core to her stepfather, the most stylish of all the graduates. The short story is that she's one of the reasons I've changed into who I am. She and Elena opened me up to someone new. Someone I never knew about, and suddenly like that, I found myself.

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Elena

They say if you work doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. That was all true until one rough era of my career, before the transition. Nothing about The Vampire Diaries, but my real work was a vampire in a way; I'd be living a different life in the light than in the night.

I'm keeping a 9-5 job while getting my novel started off. I think I might stay in this job or swap it out for paid internships once I get my bachelor's in business management and also an entrepreneurship master's. People say i'm doing this because i've known to do one thing through the majority of my life, "study, get good grades, make people proud." now i don't know what to do once all that's done, so i just keep studying.

I'm certain everyone I know will think I'm the opposite of a nerd, but I can be a nerd when I need to, it's one of the reasons I went into psych. The one thing no one understands is there's a difference between a studious person and a nerd. For instance, I'm not a nerd; I'm just someone who cares about their grades and learns a lot about balance; it's how I got my post-IB plan.