I’m on work experience at Bauer’s Pregnancy and Birth mag for the next two weeks after a good time there over easter. Getting to write, research and do lots of bits and bobs – also crossing my fingers that another photoshoot day-out will come up as I loved that last time.
Anyway, so today I’m doing the tea-run in the kitchen – balancing a green tea with a PG Tips, trying to work out how the kettle works… you get the idea. As I was waiting for a slightly suspect looking kettle to boil, a man comes in and points out the hot water tap right in front of me. Doh.
“Only thing is, the cuppa is worse as the water is just below boiling,” he chuckles. “First day?”
“Work experience,” I explain.
“Ah, do you want to be a writer?”
“Yep, I’d love to so I’m just trying to write everything I can at the moment!”
“Practice is what it takes, just lots of practice,” he says.
“What do you do?” I ask.
“I’m not usually in this building,” he replies, “I head Kerrang, Q and Mojo.”
Cue a wide-eyed, shocked and somewhat tongue-tied me, as he wishes me good luck and goes off into the night (well, the corridor…)
Now ‘head’ is a rather vague word so I’m not sure exactly who he was (despite numerous google image searches to no avail).
But words of wisdom for me and my fellow recently-qualified journalists: Practice, practice, practice!
