Reading for a living
I started a new job last month, and it's more or less something I've been looking for for a long while. For as long as I can remember, I'd always dreamed of reading books for a living. I may have made career choices that led to that. Well now, the new job is sort of like that in what may be the best place possible: Penguin Random House . Yup, I now work as part of the international sales team of Penguin Random House US. If you're a person who reads book blogs, I don't have to tell you that this is an awesome job. And though I also tell friends that I worked for it, I think a large part of it, too, was luck. Perhaps being in the right place at the right time, and maybe even doing the right things. Whatever it is, it's hard to look a gift-horse in the mouth, you know? The lobby uptown In any case, this great opportunity is still a job: a job I seem to be willing to spend hours and hours in. There's still a lot of stuff to learn (and unlearn) a...