Hurrah! A real job at last
05/19/2005 02:45 a.m.
I started copy editing for an Anchorage newspaper a few days ago. I have a job, for the first time in my life, that is actually geared toward my career goals. It's something I ACTUALLY want to do, not something I am forced to do like sling coffee drinks, answer idiotic questions, etc. I was really nervous yesterday because they are basically trying me out to see how I do before I am truly hired and out of all the pages I read yesterday, I only found maybe 2 really small mistakes. And no one wants to hire someone who isn't necessary, am I right? But today I found a lot of mistakes, a lot a lot. Mostly typos and the like, and things that were supposed to be in bold font ocassionally weren't. Everyone there is so nice, and there's a really old dog named Boozer who wanders around the office all day, that's Alaska for ya. But I love having a dog around, so it just adds to my my psychotic, grammar-correcting frenzy.