How to Take the Right RisksBe bold. Be daring. Be out there. But first, be sure it's the right bet to take.
ByJason Feifer•
This story appears in theNovember 2017issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
I have this job because I took ariskin 2007.
I was a small-town newspaper reporter in Massachusetts then, writing about minor crimes and mayoral races, and the road ahead depressed me. That gig would only lead to a similar one at a slightly larger paper, in another random town. And then another. And another. What I really wanted was to be a magazine editor in a big city, a role nobody in the industry would consider me qualified for. So I startedpitchingfreelance stories to magazines, hoping to prove myself. Whenever one was accepted, I'd stay up late after my day job to meet thedeadline. Eventually I got some steady work inBostonmagazine, met some of the staff and saw that an editor was leaving and they'd behiringa replacement. I wanted it to be me.