THE DAY IN MY LIFE I BECAME ME: CH. 01-2.0
Prologue:
This is CH. 01 - 2.0 of my second erotic story submitted to Literotica. I continue being thankfully indebted to Candy_Kane54 for providing editing, style advice, and general encouragement for my several erotic story submissions.
I added this CH. 01 Rewrite -- 2.0 because a few readers complained of difficulties with some of the grammar. Most of the 100+ readers were okay with the original CH 01. Therefore, they need not read the 2.0 version unless desiring to compare the two versions, which were primarily grammatical changes.
However, two additional primary characters are listed below (Kelly and Moon), who will first appear in CH. 02.
Readers who desire can immediately commence reading CH.02.
Primary Characters:
Rachael (Rach) Saunders: MBA and Business Owner = 26 Years Old
Catherine (Cat) Jamieson: BS Math and Key Employee = 24 Years Old
Shels Gordon: HS Senior and Lost Girl #1 = 19 Years Old
Ames Davis: HS Senior and Lost Girl #2 = 19 Years Old
Jocelyn Williams: MA Education and HS Teacher = 26 Years Old / {CH. 02}
M. Chee (Moon) Hahn: HS Senior and Lost Girl #3 = 18 Years Old / {CH. 02}
Kelly Phillips: Resident Manager St. John's Group Home = 24 Years Old / {CH. 02}
BACKGROUND:
Today, Rachel relaxed in the office of her new investment firm while she took a long hard look at her life. She pondered when or what was the exact time in her life that brought her here. Almost everyone can acknowledge that something occurred that changed their life at a particular point in their life. It could be a person, an event, or other ecliptic action that propelled them into making major life choices, such as where and what to study or their career choice.
A good friend would reason that Rach had entirely too much free time on her hands, needing more drama in her life. Therein lays her fundamental issue with life since Rach does not have any good or close friends to help her stay focused. Virtually all her human-to-human physical contact was with work associates.
Rachael (Rach) Saunders was her name, and she stood fairly tall on a nice slim build. Some people viewed her as cute, and she certainly felt that she was attractive, although not the type that was a model quality. However, Rach did concede that other people often viewed her attractive as well. She was twenty-six years old and held an MBA from a Northern USA-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) University. She was currently the sole owner of a successful investment firm that boasted a unique business plan which worked perfectly. Yet, Rach continued to question what day, event, or time in her life landed her there!
Rach was born and reared in Northern Florida as an only child and lived a middle-class lifestyle. She believed her parents loved each other dearly; however, they basically kept a tightly sealed lid on their emotional selves. Rach's parents participated in most activities of a typical middle-class family; however, their nuclear and extended families were small.
Rach quite enjoyed her time in primary and secondary schools. Her grades were excellent, with her having been on the honor roll every graded period. She was not interested in competitive sports; however, she was passionate about being a distance runner and also excelled as a horseback rider. In retrospect, Rach loved those two activities because she was a loner. Most of her small-town neighbors labeled her as an introverted loner. They were correct as she was most comfortable when secluded from others.
Life was
rocked for Rach
in her senior year of High School when her parents died in a small-craft boating accident. Naturally, Rach was terribly distressed with her Mom and Dad's deaths at the young age of seventeen years old. They were indeed her lifeline, even as they kept their outward emotions tightly checked. However, several neighbors and the St. John's Church Community helped her function somewhat normally during that early life crisis, which Rach was totally unprepared for.
Rach persevered through her senior year and High School graduation once she eventually adjusted to their loss. As Rach stated earlier, her parents and few other local extended family members were not a highly emotional lot. So, after a few weeks of despair, she regained her balance and slowly continued on with life. Rach's parents were very cautious in their lives; therefore, they had the best insurance coverage available to them, with Rach as the sole beneficiary.
Rach met with the Law Firm, which managed the financial trust she inherited at the age of seventeen, most of which was their family property. Allison, who handled Rach's financial trust fund, wisely invested the insurance proceeds and disposed of the property to Rach's financial advantage. This left Rach with sufficient disposable income for daily needs and long-term investments for her future benefit. Additionally, Rach had previously been awarded a full scholarship for her five-year MBA program at the ACC University in Boston. Therefore, most of Rach's life was proceeding as well as could be expected after the untimely death of her parents.
However, virtually all of Rach's free time had previously been occupied by parents and studies. With the death of her parents when Rach was seventeen, a significant gap in Rach's daily life had been created. This had left only classroom studies to consume a considerable portion of her time and emotions.
Rach was reasonably confident that the timing of her parents' death had a lot to do with why she now sat at her desk questioning "The Day In My Life I Became Me." However, she certainly did not feel their deaths were the primary or sole reason for who she was or would become.
Rach excelled academically at the Boston University and used quite a bit of her free time to study financial investments since being a loner with financial stability allowed her much free time to play with penny stocks. This was a natural activity for an MBA major that had not developed any close friendships throughout her five years of university studies.
Rach developed her
"Theories on Successful Investing
," an investment model that packaged high-moderate-low risk investments into subgroups. These subgroups defined the expected matured and timed high dollar margin returns to be expected. She lived in a small apartment in Chestnut Hill just west of Boston, not needing or desiring a roommate. Therefore, Rach was the only person that knew of and had easy access to her investment packages computer models, which were jealously guarded.
In Rach's fourth year of MBA studies, she had designed the Mother Lode investment package. This resulted in her being financially secure for life, provided she sensibly managed her finances. However, she was well aware that investing money in most situations was comparable to gambling and can definitely spiral out of control if one was not cautious
.
Rach graduated Cum Laude in her MBA class and returned to the general area of her youth. She finally decided to relocate to Tybee Island, GA, following graduation, where she currently resides.
STARTING HER COMPANY:
After graduation, Rach relocated to Tybee Island and signed a six-month rental agreement on a quaint three-bedroom cottage. Her immediate task was to decide on the best area suited for permanent residence and then identify a potential business property and/or structure to purchase. She needed to live within a twenty to thirty-minute drive of her business office and was quite careful in her search, which required a few months to complete. Therefore, Rach extended her lease for the cottage another six months. The owner was pleasantly thrilled since few residents live year-round on Tybee. As a result, Rach was able to focus solely on the business development component of her life.
The business location would initially occupy one level. However, local zoning rules allowed for finishing the second level as a personal residence or business expansion if desired. Rach would occupy the largest first-floor private office in the facility. There were also five additional smaller offices, a reception area, a well-appointed conference room, and a small canteen. Presently, the second level had three personal sleeping and toilet areas if she or a staff consultant stayed and worked overnight. If all proceeded according to her business plan, the second level would be fully remodeled and refitted for business in three years.
According to Rach's business plan, the company owned the building and all contents, including computers, smartphones, and furniture. All electronic instruments were privately encrypted; therefore, downloads to any non-corporate-owned electronics were not possible, as well as prohibited. The newly recruited Investment Contractor(s) walked in to work on their first day and only needed their brain to start work immediately. Each contractor was entitled to work for one year absolutely rent-free while developing their client base and generating positive cash flow on commission income. Once their commission income reached a sustained level, the company charged them a twenty-five percent fee. The commission billing fee percentage would decrease as their billings dollar volume increased. If the contractor(s) was intelligent and aggressive, they would be earning six figures annually within eighteen months, with absolutely zero out-of-pocket business startup costs.
All now had proceeded according to plan with the facility purchased and renovations completed to Rach's specs. As a result, the search for skilled investment contract workers had now moved forward at full speed.
Catherine (Cat) Jamieson was the first investment person contracted for the company. She was a quiet and talented woman that saw a business news ad for unique investment opportunities available to a contractor. After five minutes into Cat's interview, it was readily apparent that she was brilliant, and her personality meshed beautifully with Rach's. Cat agreed to a five-year contract working as an investment manager. She also committed to working for the company as a part-time employee for ten hours each week. Cat wrote and maintained the company's Contract Investor Procedures Manual. She was a whiz at those kinds of documentation projects, which Rach could perform, but did not enjoy these types of detail-oriented tasks.
After several more interviews, two additional female and one male contractor were signed on with three-year contracts. They had to attend and pass a one-week operations training class taught by Cat before their contracts being finalized. The company had space for a fourth contractor, but that space was left open for later hire.
The company's business had grown nicely, and Rach was in a very comfortable place financially with the commission income from the four investment contractors. However, she felt it was now time to bring on a receptionist as the first full-time employee. Rach asked Cat to serve the HR functions for this one full-time employee.
CONTEMPLATION:
