Carrie would die of starvation without work. She had to put aside her dignity to survive.
Major corporations were out of the question since Carrie did not have work experience. It was not as if she could, unless she wanted to be discovered anyway. In the end, she took a job as a waitress at the second-floor restaurant of a hotel.
She dropped her attitude and kept her head down, only commuting between work and her rental place. She got along well with her colleagues.
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