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banking broadcasting financialtechnology humor memoir midlifecrisis personalgrowth sitcom television

What did the systems analyst say to the television producer?  I love it when you call me Big Data.

Happy Path is what happens when a 20-year broadcasting career is cut short and opportunity comes knocking in the guise of a charismatic boss who leads an IT banking unit.  In a single day, Molly is cut loose from her complacency as a promotions producer for a major television network and is offered a soft landing that's sold as a time-filler while she figures out what to do with her working life.  Not fully understanding the job she's accepted, our protagonist embarks on a journey that immerses her in a workplace foreign exchange.  

When I lost my job and took up with a group of coders and system architects, I had to learn a whole new language while also adapting to the idiosyncrasies of corporate banking.  My disbelief at what I was experiencing on a daily basis, coupled with the fact that there wasn't a single soul who could relate to my perspective, compelled me to record the most bizarre of circumstances. I learned my personal limits and broke my brain.  I misunderstood almost everything and related to nothing, awed by profound personal struggle and the sheer madness of my situation.  The story is about insight, perseverance and some of the richest situational comedy of my life.

If I had to summarize, I'd say Happy Path constitutes observational humor with a personal bent.  If I had to dig a little deeper, I'd say Happy Path is a laughable take on a mid-life crisis set against the juxtaposed backdrops of financial technology and the changing media landscape.Toate drepturile rezervate

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Female Joker

in a alternate reality, Artis Fleck, is a 34 year old women, she's never been happy, she can't remember one happy moment on her life. she lives with her mom, after getting out of Arkham, she'd rather live there than out in the streets. She works at a small building called HaHa's in hopes it will help her situation to be a comedian. But to make it worse, she has a condition that causes her to laughed when she's nervous, uncomfortable, or not to match her emotions, but it's sometimes and act, for her clown Carnival. And of course this triggers other people and makes then think shes a freak, but if course being different can cause a lot of problems. But after weeks of abuse she snaps, and kills three men on a train. She needs to figure out what her purpose is, make people laugh? No, make people pay. So I wouldn't laugh at this Clown, because it might just end..... Deadly. She wants to make people happy, to be a comedian, but it's hard when all people do is laugh at you, instead of you making them laugh This story contains language, I but of crazy ness, Partly LGBT, a perfect beautiful clown, and I bit of gore Just a sliver, I promise. THIS IS NOT A SMUT .. Injoy, love bugs .

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