Bittersweet

I was surprisingly melancholy on the last day of my internship. Over two months, I had made a couple of good friends who endured my ranting and raving about how unfair the magazine industry is, gloating every time I scored an interview and play-by-plays of every article idea I got. I filled in for an Editorial Assistant [...]

Internship-itis

Things have been unusually slow around work this week, probably because the huge gift guide project is over. The editorial assistants still have us running around, but it’s spontaneous, so there’s much more room for dilly-dallying. I’m trying to leave a good impression before I go, but it’s just so hard to concentrate or give a [...]

What’s The Hold Up?

I interviewed for a Web Editor/Producer position at a bridal magazine about a month ago. I sent in an awesome edit test and had a pretty good rapport with the editors. It’s a subject that’s right up my allet since I’m getting married next year! The executive editor told me at the time of my [...]

When It Rains, It Pours

I’ve been at my internship for approximately seven weeks and I think it’s time to move on. I got offered a 6-8 week temporary Web Editor/Producer position at a long-running but not as well known magazine. I am supposed to start on October 1st, which is less than two weeks away, so I had to [...]

Dressing For the Job

Every morning, it’s a struggle. It’s always been a struggle, but now I have the added pressure of trying to meet all the fabulously dressed people at my job at least halfway. As I open my closet door, I’ll get flashbacks of an electric blue suede pump or a perfectly pleated boxy skirt or a sweet [...]

Slave Labor

I know internships are usually the very definition of slave labor, but to know and to experience are entirely diferent things.
Today was ROUGH. I intern at a very popular women’s fashion magazine and I work in all the different departments, which usually means that everyone thinks they have equal claim over my day. My daily [...]

No more exposure, please!

The magazine industry is notoriously hard to break into, especially women’s fashion magazines. Interning after graduation is commonplace, as is having 3-4 internships on a hopeful Editorial Assistant’s resume. New York is full of girls (and boys) who just ‘love’ fashion and are incredibly passionate about writing. Oh, what most of us wouldn’t give to [...]