How to Take the Right Risks
Be bold. Be daring. Be out there. But first, be sure it's the right bet to take.
by Jason Feifer
Nov 01, 2017
3 minutes
I have this job because I took a risk in 2007.
I was a small-town newspaper reporter in Massachusetts then, writing about minor crimes and mayoral races, and the road ahead depressed me. That gig would only lead to a similar one at a slightly larger paper, in another random town. And then another. And another. What I really wanted was to be a magazine editor in a big city, a freelance stories to magazines, hoping to prove myself. Whenever one was accepted, I’d stay up late after my day job to meet the . Eventually I got some steady work in magazine, met some of the staff and saw that an editor was leaving and they’d be a replacement. I wanted it to be me.
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