My first real writing job was as a copyeditor with a company that produced travel guide magazines (the kind you pick up free in the hotel or airport) for cities across the country.
(They brought me in to help proofread because a guide for a very large city on the East coast had been published with the word “accommodations” misspelled on every single page of the hotel listings section. I will never misspell that word again in my life.)
It was a wonderful learning and growing experience for me. I’d never been around …