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Monday Morning Memo

 

Possibly the Most Challenging Job on Earth.

Can you write? Are you persuasive? Do people usually like you? Could you design classes, recruit instructors and gather adult students for an amazing adventure into the possible? Wizard Academy is a 501c3 educational organization – a school for the imaginative, the courageous and the ambitious. Many of the most brilliant and influential minds on earth come here as an escape, a retreat, a recharging of their intellectual batteries. Think of our 21-acre campus as a year-round summer camp for grown-ups. Your job is to make sure that everything always goes smoothly.

Wow. This is a very big job and managing the details is crucial. You won’t have a staff. You are the staff. Right now the job can pay you only $54,000/yr. and you’ll definitely put in more than 40 hours each week but you’ll also be hanging out with world-changers. How much is that worth?

Do you think you’re the person we need? Would you be willing to live in Austin, Texas? Tell us about yourself in a narrative letter of any length you choose. Prove that you can write. For extra credit, visit the website, create a class you feel we should offer, decide who you’d recruit to teach it, then write the course description you’d post to fill that class. The ball is in your court. What are you going to do?

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“She was getting seen by half the town and buried in a stupid dress she only ever wore to work on Manager Appreciation Day, as her personal joke. Now she’d be wearing it for the boss-appreciating days in heaven, so the jokes go on. She probably would have wanted the dress Stoner bought her in rehab but knowing him he saved the receipt and took it back.

Oh, but he was all tore up, was Mr. Stoner. I almost didn’t recognize him in a tie, plus reflector sunglasses for the extra effect. People lined up to pay their respects, with Stoner standing at the casket so the ladies could hug him and tell him what a tragedy to see her taken so young, and him a widower. Then they’d walk away and say whatever shit they actually thought of mom. I could see their faces change, heads leaning together, hustling back to the living.

The church was not one the Peggots or any of us had ever gone to, except for some of Stoner’s family. Sinking River Baptist. Maybe that made it Stoner’s home court, but I didn’t see how it was his place to be up there beside the casket. He had barely known mom a year. It was me that had mopped her vomit and got her to bed and hunted up her car keys and got her to work on time, year in, year out. I could have put her together one last time, but nobody was asking.”

- 11-year-old Damon Fields, Demon Copperhead, p. 108

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