Support comes in the most unusual and unexpected packages

Little did I know what I was getting into simply by answering the phone at work.  "My thesis is overdue and I can't fix the formatting, and I need help... oh, my name is Sharon, and I'll be there in 10 minutes."  All I say is, it'll be okay Sharon, just email it to the store and everything will be okay.  Forty-three pages and forty minutes of a thesis later, and everything was fixed... formatting--spacing, margins, tabs, spelling, bolding, underlining, everything that I could do... and then... "thank you, you don't know what you just did for me".

But I knew... I knew what I did because I know how important these ideas, thoughts, and work is to a writer.  It's my job to be there for my customers, but it's my passion to be there for fellow writers.

The tip of the iceberg though was bumping into her again yesterday.  She looked at me and said "I got my thesis in, and they loved it.  And I get to graduate now!"  It's instances like that, that make me feel that I'm going in the right direction.

She told me that I'm wasted working in retail, but I told her that I don't feel that way.  I am surrounding myself with people and I still have my time to write and create.  I get the best of both worlds!  Everything in life is a progression.  Slowly moving into retail management, and slowly writing my fiction.  It's exciting and fulfilling and amazing and anticipating the day that I can yell "I'm finished!".