The Not-so Glitzy Life of an Editor
Thanks to bigger-than-life TV Series such as Lipstick Jungle and Ugly Betty, people seem to think that magazine editors have such glamorous and exciting lifestyles. Constant shmoozing with impossibly beautiful people, champagne for lunch, red wine for dinner and having adoring boytoys on the side.
Nyet, nada, zit. It’s all just a smokescreen, hogwash and baloney.
Or maybe it only happens to fashion editors and not those in the travel industry.
Champagnes and caviars for food reviews are kinda few and far between. So is the partying with drop-dead gorgeous models and celebrities. And if I had a photographer-with-washboard-abs like Kirby to dote on me, I’ll be spending whatever crumbs of free time I have with him instead of being online now.
So if you want to be a writer/editor just to have a chance to be in Nico Reilly’s Christian Louboutin shoes, think again. There’s gotta be more than a smidgeon of passion for the writing trade if you want to last in this race.
Besides, we should know by now that we can’t believe everything the idiot box tells us, now could we?
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my perception/idea of journalists changed after i watch gilmore girls, as journalist is the dream job of rory gilmore. i thought it was a cool career having to write those wonderful stuff i read in magazines and newspapers. but then, i just dont have the talent of writing (i wish i can write well).
I agree. I used to be a journalist for my college. I thought I could get to meet up with those hot shots in the management. In the end, all I got to do was see them through my computer screen: their email replies. How sad.
Maybe, the only group to be up close and personal with washboard abbers are the paparazzis!
Oh dear.
Cheer up. Fantasy’s just around the corner or maybe not.
But then again I hardly watch TV so what would I know huh? ;)
Gulagula – Yeah, it’s great to write cool stuff. But what makes it great is doing the stuff you love. The passion that fuels your work makes all the difference :)
Stef – LOL. Dang, I don’t think I have the required thick skin to be a paparazzi leh :P
FH2o – Great to hear from you again! Did you get the Sarawak VM magazine we sent you?