He enjoyed meeting new people and learning about different businesses as he knocked on their doors trying to sell to them. After only a year, his enthusiasm, hard work and the fact that he was a graduate paid off with a promotion to team leader accompanied by an increase in salary. That increase, however, was marginal and reflective of the newspaper’s struggles in the market and did little in changing Jonathan’s often-dire financial situation. It will do for now until something better comes along, he reasoned.
Jonathan would send money to his mother every month to try and help make ends meet. She had been fired from several companies over the years for various reasons ranging from incompetence to tardiness to turning up to the office drunk. With the help of his unbelievably patient and l
