Brianna’s blog

Week three on the job and the honeymoon is over. The workload is increasing as I am learning more and my responsibilities are growing. I literally spent 6 hours today working on one spreadsheet! 

However it is worth it I am learning so many things each minute about the business and I am meeting so many great people.

On a completely superficial level I have been getting a lot of free stuff.  Some of my favorite places I have been taken to by reps are:

acqua beauty bar: great mani/pedi place, very clean and they did an awesome job, one of the best I have had

a voce: went for lunch, got the sweet pea ravioli, portions perfectly sized, served with crostini and ricotta cheese, ambiance beautiful

fabulous, details later. 

my roommate and i just had a very interesting conversation about the single life of 20-somethings in manhattan.

when i first moved out i was sure my dating life would be revolutionized, i could stay out as late as i wanted, actually invite guys to my apartment and not have to worry about my parents. plus i live 10 minutes away from the most glamorous amazing city in the world.  a no brainer right? WRONG. my idyllic visions of going out to expensive dinners with wall street bankers at all the hottest restaurants were extinguished as quickly as my bank account.

so what gives? this city has some of the most successful attractive single 20 somethings in the world. would it kill the hot guy sitting across from me on the 4 train who has been staring at me since 59th and lex to say hello? please grow some balls, let the ego down for a second and make a move. what girl wouldn't love some friendly convo with an attractive man on the way to work? i know i much rather that than listening to the overweight man next to me munch on his croissant while attempting to fold the new york times.

i think it is completely socially appropriate to be approached on the subway, actually i prefer it to the usual liquor induced come-ons. we need to get out of the college mindset and into the real world. i would think that a guy would prefer to meet a girl during the commute, it shows that she is a mature hard working woman with ambition and goals. girls at the bar could be anything....lazy daddy's girl with no intentions of getting a job until the allowance is cut off, coked out bartender slut, you never know.

it is the same for us, we don't want to meet guys at the bar. no matter how cute they are you always run the risk of finding the "big ideas" guy, the one who is a musician, an actor, a writer that just hasn't gotten his break yet. they always win me with their looks and their creative talent that i envy.  until i realize, they are in their late 20's and its not that the business is too tough it's that they are too effin lazy and have huge egos. instead of hitting the pavement and doing the legwork they wait to be "discovered" while spending ll of their waking time in the gym or the bar. wastes of life.

ok this has gone from a single topic to a tangential rant. i am done. god help the single new york woman. good night.

My prison-like contract with Verizon will finally be up at the end of June. Now that I am in the working world of Manhattan, I am considering joining the masses of people who are glued to their Blackberries. Verizon has finally caught up with everyone else and introduced the Curve, however, I hear that sometime late summer they will be introducing the Thunder. It will be the first ever touch-screen Blackberry predicted to rival the ever-popular iPhone and Verizon had the exclusive rights. Do I wait or should I just plunge for the qwerty keyboard which will surely be easier to  use?? Ahhh...decisions.