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Work experience. Pretty much the only thing that will get you into a career in magazines. Sure, you can drive a fancy car and know how to do your own acrylic nails, but without work experience all you have is a fancy car and acrylic nails. (Which is actually kinda bad).
Interacting with work experience girls every week, I've come to discover that while there are those lovely ones that jump at every task (I was one of them, and still am as an intern) there are the ones that won't even go and get the editor a coffee ("Um, i'm really busy at the moment"- work experience girl.)
So, when I read this post from Emma over at http://wasteofspace1.wordpress.com/ I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (times a BILLION) excited to see a girl generally thrilled to not only be in the ACP building but to be working alongside her idols. (If you are a loyal whosthatsmell reader then you will remember back to my piece on nabbing that internship or job in magazines, when I interviewed my editor over at Dolly, Tiffany Dunk.)
Not a Waste of Space
Obviously not one reading my blog is the Anonymous Work Experience Girl who posted on the media blog, Early Bird Catches The Worm. Her post was quite the buzz within ACP and I believe even the Dalai Lama read the post and scoffed (albeit in a very spiritual and polite manner).
*clears throat* I would now like to draw the main differences between these two posts, which I found so amazingly hilarious.
Emma at Wasteofspace1 says:
Work experience. Pretty much the only thing that will get you into a career in magazines. Sure, you can drive a fancy car and know how to do your own acrylic nails, but without work experience all you have is a fancy car and acrylic nails. (Which is actually kinda bad).
Interacting with work experience girls every week, I've come to discover that while there are those lovely ones that jump at every task (I was one of them, and still am as an intern) there are the ones that won't even go and get the editor a coffee ("Um, i'm really busy at the moment"- work experience girl.)
So, when I read this post from Emma over at http://wasteofspace1.wordpress.com/ I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (times a BILLION) excited to see a girl generally thrilled to not only be in the ACP building but to be working alongside her idols. (If you are a loyal whosthatsmell reader then you will remember back to my piece on nabbing that internship or job in magazines, when I interviewed my editor over at Dolly, Tiffany Dunk.)
Not a Waste of SpaceObviously not one reading my blog is the Anonymous Work Experience Girl who posted on the media blog, Early Bird Catches The Worm. Her post was quite the buzz within ACP and I believe even the Dalai Lama read the post and scoffed (albeit in a very spiritual and polite manner).
*clears throat* I would now like to draw the main differences between these two posts, which I found so amazingly hilarious.
Emma at Wasteofspace1 says:
"After telling the security man my name and why I was there, I was instructed to sit on a seat full of other nervous-looking girls. We all ended up discussing what magazines we were going to do work experience for – Shop Til’ You Drop, Madison, Dolly and Cleo were all mentioned. It was pretty exciting. I ended up sitting next to the lovely Cassandra who I would be doing work experience with all week at Cosmo!"
"Belle de Work Experience" says:
"As I sat waiting in the foyer, I was quietly hoping the young teenage girl sitting nervously next to me with her parents was not also doing work experience at Cosmo."
Emma loved the Cosmo girls:
"I’ve already booked another weeks worth of work experience with Cosmopolitan – that’s just how awesome it was. And despite the prejudice provoked by Snobbery, pretentiousness, rudeness, unfriendliness—whatever you like to call it, has disappointingly appeared to me this week. I blame Freedman: her warm and friendly writing style and video posts have made me create a world in my head where I imagined all magazine editors are very friendly, nurturing mentors.The Devil Wears Prada the ladies in the office were very friendly! Rachelle Mackintosh, the Chief Subeditor of Cosmo was lovely and hilarious, and Jessica Parry, Acting Editor, even recognised me from Twitter! Melanie Senior was also full of incredibly helpful advice!"
"Belle de Work Experience, not so much":
"Snobbery, pretentiousness, rudeness, unfriendliness—whatever you like to call it, has disappointingly appeared to me this week. I blame Freedman: her warm and friendly writing style and video posts have made me create a world in my head where I imagined all magazine editors are very friendly, nurturing mentors."
They were the main ones, but just by reading these two posts, you are entering a world where some workies are happy to photocopy the latest masthead of US Glamor while her work experience partner scoffs at transcribing an interview with Blake Lively. (This actually happened*, the scoffing girl was quickly exiled to the remote tip of Gibraltar and she is now living out her life as a slave girl.)
Okay, I've bashed about this post enough today. And I'm sure my blog will get bashed about in return.
I feel like Ros Reines.
*Didn't even come close to happening.
DISCLAIMER: My posts and opinions in no way reflect the collective opinion of ACP, Dolly magazine and Cosmopolitan magazine. They are my own weird, wacky and wonderful (maybe) jives.
"Belle de Work Experience" says:
"As I sat waiting in the foyer, I was quietly hoping the young teenage girl sitting nervously next to me with her parents was not also doing work experience at Cosmo."
Am I putting my foot in it?
Emma loved the Cosmo girls:
"I’ve already booked another weeks worth of work experience with Cosmopolitan – that’s just how awesome it was. And despite the prejudice provoked by Snobbery, pretentiousness, rudeness, unfriendliness—whatever you like to call it, has disappointingly appeared to me this week. I blame Freedman: her warm and friendly writing style and video posts have made me create a world in my head where I imagined all magazine editors are very friendly, nurturing mentors.The Devil Wears Prada the ladies in the office were very friendly! Rachelle Mackintosh, the Chief Subeditor of Cosmo was lovely and hilarious, and Jessica Parry, Acting Editor, even recognised me from Twitter! Melanie Senior was also full of incredibly helpful advice!"
"Belle de Work Experience, not so much":
"Snobbery, pretentiousness, rudeness, unfriendliness—whatever you like to call it, has disappointingly appeared to me this week. I blame Freedman: her warm and friendly writing style and video posts have made me create a world in my head where I imagined all magazine editors are very friendly, nurturing mentors."
They were the main ones, but just by reading these two posts, you are entering a world where some workies are happy to photocopy the latest masthead of US Glamor while her work experience partner scoffs at transcribing an interview with Blake Lively. (This actually happened*, the scoffing girl was quickly exiled to the remote tip of Gibraltar and she is now living out her life as a slave girl.)
Okay, I've bashed about this post enough today. And I'm sure my blog will get bashed about in return.
I feel like Ros Reines.
*Didn't even come close to happening.
DISCLAIMER: My posts and opinions in no way reflect the collective opinion of ACP, Dolly magazine and Cosmopolitan magazine. They are my own weird, wacky and wonderful (maybe) jives.
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