Allie watched as the tropical paradise she called home dissolved into a field of cloud monsters. She didn’t make forms out of the clouds this time. She was paralyzed with anticipation. She could hardly believe the materializing of her long-time dream: a job as a sales representative in the Human Health Division of Centaury Pharmaceuticals. Centaury was known for its safe, cutting-edge products, excellent training, benefits, and treatment of their employees, fair and conservative selling tactics, and humanitarianism. She thought proudly about the last two months. In November, she was still twenty-three. She remembered how her jaw dropped when she’d heard the details of her new job. A twenty-three-year-old making over forty-thousand dollars base pay; obscene health, dental, and retirement benefits; bonus potential of eleven-thousand dollars, maybe more; a company car, including car insurance; not to mention being shuttled on planes to great hotels for training; more food than she could ever eat; and yes, even dry-cleaning during the initial training phase of ten weeks. She shook her head as she thought of her parents trying to discourage her from leaving her job at the brokerage firm. How crazy was that? As she methodically buckled her seatbelt, the clicking seemed louder than it should have. She realized that was a mental alert she had programmed herself with. She was dwelling on the superficial again and it was time to pull out. She yanked herself out of the dazzle of the material realm, remembering that her primary concern was to help patients. She would now be responsible for educating doctors on the benefits and limitations of Centaury Pharmaceutical’s products. She took this very seriously and wanted to be the best. She glanced over at a woman with what seemed to be her elderly mother, and smiled. Maybe her drugs would help them. She looked back out the window and swore she saw a cloud angel, she shifted her head, or maybe a turtle. She laughed at herself and tried to clear her mind.

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ISBN: 978-159858-437-0
180 pages

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