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After saying goodbye to my other two brothers, I locked up the house and went for a shower I stood under the hot water for a long time after the smoky smell of the fire washed away from my skin and hair just to let my muscles relax When I was done, I threw on a pair of boxers and slid into bed My eyes flickered over to the tablet on htstand The screen was dark, but I could al for me to reply

It was late, but not so late that I couldn’t get so just a little bit done, spending at least part of the night being productive Even when I wasn’t at the office or the racetrack on any given day, the work didn’t stop There was far more to be done for the coes, questions, and requests never stopped I started to reach for the tablet, then stopped myself

I wasn’t going to do it I’d gotten a rare, treasured night co ain I had the next week free, and then it was back to racing season Once that started, it was going to be all stress and schedules so busy they were bursting at the sea the tiot underas to relax, and that was exactly what I was going to do For the next week, it was all about giving myself the time to chill, rejuvenate myself, and prepare for the inevitable, unavoidable chaos to come

Rather than picking up the tablet, I called out to my virtual assistant to turn on sohts, and closedexhale

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“Shit, shit, shit, I’onna be late!”

My clothes were scattered all over the floor, a bra was hanging from the back of a chair in the corner, and I couldn’t find one of my shoes

It was nowhere near as exciting as it sounded It wasn’t the fun of a carefree night Or even an ill-advised, but still thrilling, night It was the sheer chaos on theof the interview for a job I would kill for I wasn’t usually one for hyperbole and definitely wouldn’t want to just start wishing violence on everybody aroundfor the Freeshot my career to a whole new level

Being a social avepeople, but the unfortunate thing about it was the sht they could pick up the skills the onthe operative word More often than not, they’d depend on me to build up their social media presence for a few months, see the benefits, then decide they could do it theood portion of them would realize the whole reason they’d hired me in the first place was because they didn’t kno to run their platform effectively

Thatas hell I hated seeing theto fix it It was especially aggravating when I realized it was my name attached to what they made out of it Of course, there were other times when the smaller companies and private clients actually did pick up on the skills and were able to keep it going on their own That was a victory of its own kind for ain h the effective use of social media

But it all boiled down to the sa I was a professional transient Not the wander the streets and sleep under the bridge type, but the bounce fro for work even when I had it type That didn’t sit ithwhen I first started In those first few , I felt like a powerful conteof an empire

The novelty wore off after a while, and I started longing for so company that would need their social er companies didn’t have the ti if I could land the position with Free haul That sounded glorious