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#19: Sam Knight, magazine writer

Always Take Notes

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The Preconceived Plan to Leave Journalism

I applied for all sorts of jobs, I've never got a job really. It was earning money in order to be able to do kind of other writing on the side. And if I'd got a really nifty job as like a Beecher's writer, I kind of might have shafted me a bit. Do you know what I mean? Because you'd think you're doing interesting stuff, but you're just doing like 800 words on a pop star or something like that. You're living the dream, but actually you look back over the course of the year and you're like, did I write anything good or was anything interesting? So it wasn't more black and white than

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