Thursday, January 29, 2009

I'm totally bored with work and that is not a good feeling. I'm sick of doing administrative work when I could be doing so much more. And copyediting has to be one of the most boring tasks I have yet to encounter.  I wouldn't mind if I were copyediting a young adult manuscript, like when I interned at Simon and Schuster, but copyediting a math or a government textbook in Spanish is just tedious and gives me no self-fulfillment at all.  

I've recently started thinking about going for my MBA in writing or just taking online writing courses.  I wonder if I could continue my career as an editor in a bigger company and preferably in children's trade book publishing.  

My major in College was journalism and I was a really good writer.  I had potential.  All my professors said so.  So why am I here, with Bossman who makes me feel so useless, like a child, really?  It's my fear of failure come to haunt me again.  So what if the internship at S&S didn't go as planned.  I could try again.  We have Random House and Penguin and Scholastic and others.  Maybe now that I have more experience it will be easier to get interviews.  But God, how I do hate interviews.  

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