Tyler Lundermann lay on the futon in his apartment, smoking some weed and reveling at his career success. When he earned his MBA with a focus on advertising he knew that the ad business was a dog-eat-dog world, and he loved it. He had been a fierce and effective competitor in the classroom and on the athletic field from middle school on. He was not about to back off now.
At 29 Tyler was in his 4th year as an associate in the creative department at the Milikan, Ross & Dembrow ad agency with no where to go but up. He had plotted his rise carefully, having already elbowed his way past a couple of coworkers with more seniority to being the lead on several projects. If these accounts continued to do well and with just a little more success, he was nearly assured of being made a junior partner within a year, two at the most. With more drive, who knows, perhaps senior partner before he turned 40.
Drifting along in these glorious thoughts, Tyler was suddenly jerked into reality. There was one potential major obstacle. Jill! Jill...fuck!...yes...Jill. Two years behind him in the firm, she had been coming on just as strong in her first two years as he had, maybe even stronger. On top of that their boss had just assigned them to co-lead the same, new project. Tyler couldn't afford to let Jill come out ahead on this one.
"Every day is the first day of the rest of your life," Tyler reminded himself. Tomorrow when he and Jill were scheduled to have a meeting to decide how to begin this project, he'd be sure that she would understand that he was top dog.
At 29 Tyler was in his 4th year as an associate in the creative department at the Milikan, Ross & Dembrow ad agency with no where to go but up. He had plotted his rise carefully, having already elbowed his way past a couple of coworkers with more seniority to being the lead on several projects. If these accounts continued to do well and with just a little more success, he was nearly assured of being made a junior partner within a year, two at the most. With more drive, who knows, perhaps senior partner before he turned 40.
Drifting along in these glorious thoughts, Tyler was suddenly jerked into reality. There was one potential major obstacle. Jill! Jill...fuck!...yes...Jill. Two years behind him in the firm, she had been coming on just as strong in her first two years as he had, maybe even stronger. On top of that their boss had just assigned them to co-lead the same, new project. Tyler couldn't afford to let Jill come out ahead on this one.
"Every day is the first day of the rest of your life," Tyler reminded himself. Tomorrow when he and Jill were scheduled to have a meeting to decide how to begin this project, he'd be sure that she would understand that he was top dog.