{"id":735,"date":"2007-06-07T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T05:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/07\/a-certain-antipathy\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T05:20:05","slug":"a-certain-antipathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"A Certain Antipathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days it’s been hard to conjure up the time and energy to post daily. I don’t know if just because I am so busy, or because of my conversation with my brother’s friend, Jimmy. Jimmy used to be a managing editor at KoreAm<\/em>, and he graciously agreed to meet me for dinner just to talk about magazine stuff.<\/p>\n

Over tapas at the Block (some huge mall in Orange), he basically told me that getting a magazine job is hard, very hard, and that I will not make very much money. He also told me flat-out that blog-writing counts for zip in the publishing world because it is not edited at all.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not saying that Jimmy is a bad guy or even a pessimistic guy – far from it – he is clearly a very sweet, solicitous guy who was trying to give me as much helpful information as he could. I appreciated his advice and his time; it was just perhaps too large a dose of reality for me to handle at the moment. I should expect to get an entry-level position. I need to work on building a portfolio of clips (which are published pieces). Both my thesis and essay in the art catalog are too long to be useful for this. If I want to get clips, I need to start pitching ideas to editors all over the place, and expect to be rejected a lot. He did say that the kind of experience I would get working for a private educational firm would not help me get a better job in the magazine world – so there is less temptation to go in that direction now. Basically, he said bluntly that leaving teaching and trying to work in the magazine world was a bold move – and he said that with a low whistle and a shake of the head.<\/p>\n

So, it looks like I need to start busting out applications to these editorial positions in Irvine that start at $25,000-$30,000\/year. That’s not much cash for south OC.<\/p>\n

I have been checking out a few different websites for jobs. Jimmy recommended ed2010.com<\/a>, but those are mostly NYC jobs. The second site he mentioned,\u00c2\u00a0 journalismjobs.com<\/a>, has been much more helpful and I have been checking it daily. I’ve also been checking monster.com<\/a>, the OC Weekly<\/a>, and artandeducation.net<\/a>. I’ve only sent out one inquiry letter (to a friend of the family) and one application (part-time associate editor for an LA art magazine).<\/p>\n

I did get an interesting tip today. A woman who used to write for the Hi-Desert Star (Susan Chaney) is now an editor at Fancy Magazines in Laguna. Curiously, I have seen several positions open for Cat Fancy<\/em>, Bird Talk<\/em>, and Horse Illustrated<\/em>; the positions are for a managing editor,which is out of my league, but I think I’ll send a letter anyway. She may smile upon a fellow desert denizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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