Sleeping My Way Up

Even if everyone else doesn’t know that I slept with Ace, the fact that I knew was bad enough for me. I knew that there were people who took these shortcuts in life to climb up the corporate ladder but ‘sleeping my way’ up wasn’t how I wanted to progress in my career. I wanted to get up there with my own merits and achievements. I threw my phone onto the bed before I sighed loudly.

The reason that I wanted to make it up there wasn’t that I could be up there, but it was because I wanted to have the skills and the opportunity to put my creative ideas out there to touch the hearts of people with my work in various forms of media. Sleeping my way up wouldn’t give me the skills required to achieve my dreams even if I ended up making it up there.

Plus, without the real skills, how long can I keep fooling geniuses like Jeremy, Richard, Julianna and the other on the team for?

I closed my eyes and turned onto my stomach before burying my face into my pillow. The answer to that was simple: I