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How a Journalist Reinvented Herself as an Editor - A Career Story That Inspires

13 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A journalist describes her unexpected shift to editing, driven by persistence despite early struggles with reading. She never imagined becoming an editor or author, but stayed committed to projects until the work transformed her career.

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I definitely appreciate that I'm a person who sticks with a project and doesn't give up. When I started out, I didn't see myself as an author. I was trained to be a journalist. I had no idea that I would become an editor at the end of my career, or— I'm not done yet, but where I'm at now, you know, I never thought that that would be what would come in my future, that I would edit other people's work. And then I never thought I'd be an author. So like I said, I started out not liking to read. I mean, I like to read, but it took me a while to get through books. It probably still does, but I had some reading comprehension issues that made me have to slow down.