No one would have predicted Mariah would have taken the criticism so hard. She had always seen herself as a right well-adjusted person, but sometimes life throws you a curveball, and you look silly, trying to hit it. The situation was this; Mariah was a single thirty-something when graduating with a degree in business. She had always been astute with her grades, and it was visible in her ability to transition from graduate to business owner. Her business was as an interior decorator building an agency catering to high paying clientele.
When Mariah sought out this work, she had no idea so much would be involved, yet she persevered on developing an extreme sense of design for others and herself. One of her first projects was updating her parent's home and bringing it into the 21st century, to which her parents are still living today.
On another project, Mariah was working with a stockbroker. They had first met at a mixer for young business types and entrepreneurs. They hit it off exchanging information and meeting up for drinks and conversation a few times upon which one of these times Marvin, the up and coming bright future stockbroker, requested she decorates his new apartment. Marvin shared some of the specifications he had of the place with Mariah, and by the sound of it and coming to know him, Mariah was already thinking up some ideas in her mind's eye, be it fabrics, metals, or stone.
The day she was able to see the place in person, her jaw dropped from the fantastic view his apartment commanded over the city below. She'd have a field day decorating this place, seeing all that was involved thinking it may take a matter of a month, depending on the availability of the items selected. Mariah worked diligently, traveling back and forth to Marvin's place, making the final decisions independently as Marvin agreed till one day the apartment except for a set of pinstriped linen curtains got stuck overseas.
Mariah marveled at her work, wondering how Marvin would react to the new look. So on her next visit, Mariah scheduled with Marvin, who had been out of town a great deal of the process for the big reveal. To his great surprise, Marvin was greatly pleased and excited about the overall changes so much that they popped open a bottle of champagne, and Mariah explained her choices and the vast list of materials and artwork she had used in making Marvin's apartment into a work of art.
As the night rapidly cruised on, they ordered takeout. While they waited, Marvin wrote Mariah a generous check right there on the spot. It was her services that solidified what Mariah had thought all along about getting into this line of work.
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