Out of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire?

After two weeks at the entertainment website, yesterday was my last day.
It was getting to be way too much. Now, I’ve held jobs and internships before where I have worked until close to midnight and came in early the next day. But, this start-up website was just too unprofessional. The editor would call me at [...]

Cosmogirl Goes, Who’s Next?

I should change the name of this blog to ‘Angry Blogging Writer’ or something. It seems like I don’t really have anything good to say about journalism or the industry right now.
Cosmogirl is dead, as various media outlets have already told us, and that is definitely making me (and every other magazine editor out there) [...]

Is negotiating your salary a no-no these days?

The bridal mag finally called and offered me the job. I should be excited, right? Read on…
After the editor made the offer, I asked for a $3k increase in salary. I’ve always been told that it’s standard to negotiate (especially since this isn’t an entry-level position, more like assistant/associate), but it was very apparent that [...]

Busy Little Bee

Belated Eid Mubarak to all my fellow Muslims!
My long-distance fiance (more on him some other time) was here for five days last week and while I had an great time, I had no time to get anything done! I was off all last week, since I quit my internship. I started my new job as a Junior Editor [...]