A cover letter for a real job, and I can't figure out how to make my current vocation as a cigarette-candy girl sound professional. I need to convince my hopefully future boss that in my employment with Peachy's Puffs I am making good use of my hard-earned college degree. Peachy's Puffs is a company inspired by the 1940s cigarette girls who were employed by bars to roam around with a tray of smokes, such as Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields. In modern-day San Francisco, Peachy's Puffs employs both men and women who sell far more than just cigarettes and hit 8 to 15 bars a night. That is, if we want to make enough money to feel like we're earning an actual salary.
Most Puffs have full-time day jobs, too.
As a recent college grad, I'm supposed to be finding a real job, but I seem to have secured its antithesis instead. You can recognize a real job just by checking whether employees know how much their paychecks will be. Such is not the case with Puffing. As a Puff, my income depends wholly on how sexy I dress, the weather, and how many cheap or generous people I encounter in a night. A real job is from nine to five, when white-collar workers sit in front of their computers and slave away on projects.