RATED: K DISCLAIMER: S60 is not mine SUMMARY: five things list for Jack THANKS: for the readers NOTES: One of my favorite characters, I wanted more about him, but I had to work with what I got. Hoping you'll enjoy reading it, because I sure enjoyed writting it.
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01 - It gives him respect.
Everybody knows (everybody who matters, that is) it's a hard job, and it's even harder to get there. The ones that don't have a clue of that at least respect you for your Black American Express. Chairman of NBS. With a few exceptions in Nevada, everybody bends over to that.
02 - It gives him the life style he always wanted.
If anything his hard working parents taught him when they were alive was not to settle for little and always dream big. That's why they worked their asses off to give him access to firsth class education and oportunities to be the best in everything he'd ever try - didn't matter if it was football or Law School. You can always go far if you putt everything you got into it. And so he did it.
03 - It gives him a feeling of dignity.
Jack could pretty much say he's done with working and enjoy the money he made over ten years in that chair - he and Marylyn used to laugh at that thought and plan his early retirement as a childish dream. But that's not what he was taught. Hard work dignifies a man; lazyness won't make a thing out of you.
04 - It gave him a reason not to go back home whenever he and his wife were having those fights that could last for days.
At firsth, they liked to talk their problems out - like every couple, love will always see things through. Except that, about four years ago talking started fading, giving space to yelling, and then to the horible sound of indiference: silence. He didn't feel like going home just to hear his wife didn't care for saving their marriage anymore. Now that Marylyn left, silence is quite diferent: its the sound of a huge, empty house he thanks his job he doesn't have to face that much.
05 - It gives him the dicieving impression of having things in control.
He can yell at people, he can boss them around. It is stressful, he is on four heart medications and one to stop his hair from falling, but he loves it - he could easely say he's getting adicted to it through the years, for inside his office is a safe zone he indeed has under control. He doesn't have to believe the truth when he's in there: he's over 40. He's divorced. He has no family anymore. His children are yet to (or even will never) come.
No, he knows he isn't in control. But still, it's nice to take a break and pretend.
