When I was 15, I had my first work experience at a magazine. It was at a small, a5 dance magazine in Farringdon and I ventured on the train to London for a week to go and experience what it was like working on a magazine. I loved every day, and since then I have …
You learn a lot about yourself and other people when you grow up. You learn what you like and what you don’t. You learn about what actually matters and who matters. This is all very deep. If only I could tell 15-year-old me – the huge geek who revised as if her life depended on … Continue reading
This is probably my first, non-related journalism post on the blog. Since taking up my most recent role, and third job in the journalism industry, I feel like I have overdone advice on getting into the industry. I’ve written about my journey, my NCTJ, my work experience placements, what I’ve learned, etc… and that content … Continue reading
Ten years sounds like a bloody long time. If someone told me when I was 14 that ‘In 10 years, you’ll finally get what you wanted’ I would probably have been like WHAT. TEN YEARS. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING. But time flies and all, and 14 is pretty young to decide on a … Continue reading
There’s one thing that I am really proud of with this blog, and it’s that I have kept it going for about four years. I started it in the first term of my final year of uni – everyone was job hunting and, knowing I was going to go on and do a post-grad NCTJ, … Continue reading
I’m a pretty negative person. Not overtly negative when all my friends are around, but I’m the one who will say the half eaten chocolate bar is nearly finished, even after one bite. I’ve never really, truly taken onboard the whole ‘thoughts are things’ idea until very recently, and I guess I never realised how … Continue reading
I was asked this question several weeks ago at a job interview. “And what would you like to achieve outside of work by the end of the year?” I had been fine up until that point. I felt confident, answered questions pretty quickly without stumbling, gave detail. And then I got that. And I froze. … Continue reading
Sometimes, you do something you really love and you say afterwards ‘That was great, we should do that more often‘. Like pancake day. Everyone pretty much salivates over pancake day. 97% of people love it. Everyone is cheery and happy and talks for hours at work about what they’re going to have on their pancake. … Continue reading
… is when you aren’t trying to be creative at all. I admit, I forced myself to be creative for the above photo. Forced myself in the sense that I set myself an afternoon on a Sunday (with a little help) to make some photos for my blog. Because ‘Googling’ said images just doesn’t cut … Continue reading
What’s your next career step? I’m not entirely sure… From a very young age, I realised I wanted to be a journalist. A print journalist. A feature-writing journalist who would get bylines in national women’s magazines and write about travel and relationships and friendships and life and work. I knew it was hard, of course, … Continue reading
No one likes Monday mornings do they? But you know the people that don’t like it even more? Commuters. The ones who have to wake up at the crack of dawn, to get on a possibly delayed train to work, to be flustered and frustrated by the time they reach the office at 9am. I … Continue reading
