Checking on the Covid Class of 2020
In 1995, I got my first job after college from a “help wanted” ad posted in a newspaper’s classified ads. (Remember those?) The headline on the ad said they were looking for an “aspiring journalist” to serve as assistant to the newspaper’s executive editor. At the time, I didn’t know if I was aspiring to be a journalist, but I was aspiring to pay rent and buy food. I was aspiring to put my newly earned English degree to good use. So, I drove to an office building and dropped off my resume, which was printed on actual paper because no one knew what a PDF file was back then. About a week later, I got called in for an […]