What I Learned About My Career From Leading a Double Life

The year after I graduated college, I led a double life. Nothing exciting like being a business woman and a lady of the night, but I was white-collar by day and blue-collar after 5 p.m.. That August, I had landed an interview for a marketing assistant position at one of the "Big Five" book publishers and miraculously, I was offered the job. I quickly accepted and wore my meager salary as a badge of honor representing that I had been inducted into the world of books. I felt lucky to be fully empl...