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Not-So-Humble Beginnings

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Author's Note: So it's been a hectic week. Some CRAZY things happened. I wrote not one, but TWO articles. For BWW, I wrote a REVI EW  and last minute my editor emailed me about an INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY WITH ACE [FUCKING] YOUNG!!! So, I got to email him interview questions and he answered them and now it's online!! It still hasn't hit me. I wish I got to meet him, but I'm still so grateful. It makes me think back to just four years ago when I thought I'd never make it. Now I have a lot of hope and I'm so glad. When I think about what my "first job" was, it's such a vague term. It could be my first paying job when I worked as a camp counselor at 15, or the job I have now, which is the first job in my field that is consistent, stable, and has benefits. But my first internship out of college was an unpaid, remote internship for an independent film production company in NYC. I had interviewed via Skype, and got the job but always had a weird ...