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Personal Narrative: Working At Blink
I knew what I had done as soon the first gunshots rang out. I knew that part of this was my fault, but strangely, I was okay with it. I was okay with whatever would play out that fateful day.
Originally I was never supposed to be swept up into this mess, I was supposed to just go to work and do my job; now that would forever change.
Three months ago everything was normal, I lived an ordinary life with my twin sister, Adrian, who I loved to death. As twin sisters we were inseparable and we always did everything from school projects to hanging out with friends together. There were very few occasions where we were not by each other’s side. In fact, we even wanted to get the same job for our Assignment.
In our society, the day one turns 18 is the
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Both Adrian and I had a similar dream: to be Assigned to work at Blink. Blink is a corporation where workers essentially run all sorts of different simulators and take different tests. The different simulations and tests are all meant to tell the government different things about our society and sectors, such as what we like and things that we want changed. It’s a very important job, but it’s difficult to have the right characteristics to work there. Luckily for Adrian and I, both of our parents work at Blink already, which means that we are very susceptible to have the right characteristics to work …show more content…
Also, if your job is in a different sector you will have two weeks to move to a foster family in that district before you can attend the training seminars. You will be attending different training seminars for about the next month and a half, after that time is up you will have two weeks of absolute free time to complete the move from your parents house to your own house and to figure out living alone. You will both be allowed to move wherever you would like to within the working housing district, and be allowed to live with whomever you would like, granted that they are under 25 and living in the working housing district. Then, for the next 7 years you will live in the working housing district until you turn 25 and the Partnering process begins,” she paused. “Do you have any questions? There will of course be more in-depth information on this later after you’ve been assigned.” Adrian and I turned to each other and

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