In 2016, just after I had finished covering the most insane election of my lifetime for Cosmo, Emma Carmichael asked me if I wanted to get a drink.
In 2016, just after I had finished covering the most insane election of my lifetime forI had first met Emma four years prior, during the summer of 2012, when I was an intern at Gawker. At 24, I had quit a job in management consulting to pursue the vague, idealistic ambition of becoming “a writer.” After that experience, a job during which I blogged about my bro colleagues to maintain my sanity, I had two simple career goals: do work I enjoy, and do it with good, kind people who share my values.
This would be, it turns out, really, really fucking hard to find. But back then, I thought it would be better in the New York media industry, which is filled with so many “good progressives.” Ha. I soon learned this was not the case. I worked at a media start-up run by a woman who, week after week, found excuses to not pay her staff. As a freelance copywriter, I briefly reported to a man who called me “too emotional” for seeking clarification on feedback that was contradictory. As a journalist, after two years of bringing in high traffic for a salary that did not even cover my living expenses, a boss threatened to fire me because I didn’t respond to a work email at 10 pm at night.
So over drinks, when Emma offered me a job, I said yes without any hesitation. I felt like I had finally found my home, and over the past two-and-a-half years here, as cliche as it sounds, I know that there really is no other place like Jezebel.
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