Jeff is a 43 year old man, he wears boring, dull business suites and carries a black briefcase. He looks old and tired, he dislikes most things and often has a distracted look on his face as he dreams of the other places he would rather be in.
"I am Jeff - a manager through and through. Coal sits on my mind like it sits underground, waiting to be discovered. I sit in my office filling and calculating, keeping the silent cogs of the coal mine running. I know more about coal than you would ever know, and more than I ever wished to know! Mining lives in my heart and the deepest pits of my soul. The coal of the mines seeps into my mind like the water into the dark, dank passageways. I live, think and cough coal. My workers hate me yet my peers look up to me. The mines are the dirties places on earth, yet I see not a speck of dust from my office to my home. The coal runs every aspect of my life and so many others, yet at the end of the day I close the gates and leave that life locked in my office.
Yet no-one sees the utter contempt that I treat every money grabbing gram and truck load that passes through those gates and pays my fortune. I never wanted this. I never asked for this life of hell. But everyday I live with it, pasting on a smile and signing every order form dumped in front of me. This is the life I lead”
p.s i would LOVE to hear of any other characters you guys have thought of!
1 comment:
Peter this is fantastic! I love how many levels you're working on with this character.
Also, loving the slang...any more? :)
Also, perhaps you can think of a new poll we could add to the blog? Any ideas?
Peri
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