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Thank you We sneak in achievement and excellence confidence allah

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shmoop me nelly or nervous nellie is her friend's collar

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Pretty much everything makes this poor girl anxious If the

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phone rings she assumes it's a creditor or worse her

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mother and doesn't answer it In the case of a

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loud sudden noise she's been known to jump literally three

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feet in the air even higher if she catches a

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good breeze and don't even get her started on clowns

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When ellie was a wee young thing it was bad

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enough But now that she's graduated from college ready to

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set out and conquer the world our nervousness is definitely

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getting in the way of any conquering On her last

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interview Out of nowhere she developed a stutter and the

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interviewer could barely understand a word she said when they

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shook hands Her palm was so sweaty it was like

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shaking hands with a garden hose and when she went

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toe hand off her resume she was unable to release

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her vice like grip and the whole thing ended up

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tearing in half Well all the good stuff was on

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the top half anyway Needless to say she was going

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To need some help if she was ever going to

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get a real job unless she suddenly came across a

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classified ad stating pro fused perspire er wanted so she

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went to the town oracle Yeah apparently they've got those

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in her area local tradition Oh oracle she says i

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can tone down the nervousness in critical situations whatever shall

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i d'oh Are you a smart girl The oracle asked

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Well yeah very smart says nellie and are you good

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at what you do Are you kidding I kick but

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i didn't go to nine years of college for nothing

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and you believe you'd be right for the positions you're

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applying for I'll for sure they'd be lucky to have

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me We'll keep those three things in mind on your

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next interview said the oracle tonight for see you landing

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a Job within 1 week Well nellie was doubtful but

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she decided to give it a shot Next interview she

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went tio when the interviewer asked her a question and

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she was afraid of sounding stupid she reminded herself that

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she got great grades in school and was especially perceptive

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individual There was no way someone with her smarts was

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Going to sound stupid when it came time to hand

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over her resume she worried fleetingly that it wouldn't appear

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impressive enough But then she recalled that she'd gone to

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a good reputable school had gotten a degree in a

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related field and had proven her dedication by working summers

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to get her feet wet Who wouldn't be impressed by

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all that Finally the interviewer asked nellie why she would

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be a valuable addition to the team Well her first

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instinct was the starts tripping over her tongue and begin

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sweating buckets but then she thought wait a second i

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would be a valuable addition to the team and she

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told the interviewer exactly why and in what way she

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would do all the butt kicking she had told the

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oracle she would dio and lo and behold she got

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the job It hadn't taken anything other than a shift

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in her mind set some self reinforcement and the conscious

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reminder of all the stuff she should feel confident about

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After all confidence doesn't just come out of thin air

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it's derived from the hard work you've put into something

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and nellie had certainly put in her share of hard

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Work She had earned that confidence and it paid off

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Big time We'll nelly still sweats on occasion but usually

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only when she's at the gym or at a child's 00:02:58.45 --> [endTime] birthday party

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