The first motorist, who never had an accident, was assumed to be single, have a high-school education, work as a receptionist and rent an apartment.

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The receptionist showed me how to work the air conditioning, the television, the blinds, the Internet, but I only had one feature on my mind: the bathroom.

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She started hunting down work before she graduated, and then devoted three months to looking full-time before she began to do some temporary work as a receptionist.

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"I had to hire a receptionist, an office manager and someone to take care of the computers just to work with the core group of three or four people, " he recalls.

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