Careers: January 2009 Archives

Making the Move

I must be a lunatic. In the most tumultuous, cost-cutting, sky-is-falling era in our industry, I left my comfortable and salaried job at The Boston Globe Magazine and put myself on the chopping block in NYC. If I was going to become a better designer and start climbing that ladder, it would have to be in New York, and it would have to be now.

So armed with the phone numbers of a few contacts that I'd met over the years, I packed my U-Haul and said goodbye to my job of 7 years and all of my beloved colleagues (not to mention a big 2 bedroom condo--with a yard!).

Second Act