单项选择题

Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s absolutely impossible nowadays to get a job without special qualifications: I can tell you that it’s not.
Six months ago, I was happily employed full time as private secretary to the Managing Director of quite a large and very successful firm of accounts in our nearest town. When financial trouble hit the firm, I was hit hard and fast, and most of the employees knew nothing about it until we were given a week’s notice to leave. When you’ve been earning an extremely good salary, as I had, a thing like that comes hard. You suddenly realize that you’ve taken everything a little too much for granted and in my own case that meant that I had spent far too much money on clothes and thought far too little about saving.
However, once I had got over the initial shock of the firm going out of business and of my losing my livelihood with it, I felt quite confident that I would have little difficulty in quickly finding a similar position with another company due to my former experience. It wasn’t until I had been searching for a month with no success that it began to dawn on (使明白) me: finding the same kind of job was not going to be easy after all.
That was when I began to get a little worried, and started to look for other jobs. I applied for a few jobs, but was told on more than one occasion that I was too experienced and too "qualified", and anyway, they couldn’t possibly pay me anything like the salary I had earned before. I decided at that point to apply for anything that looked interesting, even if it was only a part-time job.
I had been out of work for almost two months when I spotted a small ad in the paper which read: "WANTED by clothing manufacturer. Mature ladies to model clothes for foreign buyers." Well, it certainly sounded different, and interesting, so I applied. To cut a long story short, I was given an interview and have been doing the job ever since. Without any experience or qualifications I had found a very pleasant job.
The character of the author can best be described as ______.