Tuesday, April 24, 2007

on opportunities unwasted (confessions of an editorial intern)

I’ve been reminiscing a lot about the internship I had last spring, at Zondervan. It was the chance I dreamed about as an underclassman: a gorgeous section in my résumé, the perfect bridge between the life of a student and the life of an editor.

And then, you know the story. Some time in February, I discovered that I’d gotten my vocational message upside-down, and I wasn’t supposed to edit, but to write. This wasn’t because the internship was bad. It was, in fact, quite the opposite: one of the best things I did at Calvin. I still finished the internship, learning all I could from the inside of a major publishing house. (How could that hurt a hopeful writer?)

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 04/24 at 06:52 PM
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