I've Never Had a Full-Time Job in Journalism but I'm a Freelance Writer and I Like Your Story

I met with a bunch of people who were freelancing but didn't take a conventional path to do what they do. The resounding advice I got from those individuals was to just apply to be an intern do fact checking copy editing at a magazine that I really admired pitch stories ultimately because at the time I wanted to write and that's what I did. "There were different points where I should have abandoned ship that I didn't right" he says.