Life After Connecticut College

I know I've been very quiet on the blog front for a while. I found myself in a situation at Men's Health where they wanted to hire me, but weren't sure they could approve the new position with HR. (How is it that HR people have become the masters of the universe?) I didn't want to write about the move to Men's Health's NY for fear I would sabotage it all. That being said, last week I signed up for a health benefits plan and immediately felt like Pinnochio did at the end of the movie: I transformed from the "wood" of my life as an intern and otherwise transitory person, to a real life adult! I did a jig, knowing that if I fell in my clumsiness, I had benefits to cover my injury....

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Psychology, endurance, and a life relocation. Men's Health certainly keeps a girl on her toes....

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Finally, the first issue with my written work has hit newsstands. I’m totally thrilled that NY Yankee Derek Jeter is the cover boy—excuse me, cover healthy man—for my first written work. I won’t go as far as to tell you every page my writing is on. I will, however, tell you about some of the highlights of writing for “Ask Men’s Health” (closer to the front of the magazine), which is the interns’ main project. Our editor gives us each a couple questions and we are responsible for providing a fun, surprising, actionable answer—all in the witty masculine tone of MH writing. Also, I wrote some tips on how guys can pick up chicks. I never thought I’d be advising hundreds of thousands of men on their love life.

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Before I get into the nitty gritty details of my Men's Health world, I figured it might be useful to catch up on what I did in between graduation and the present. Of course, it'll be a relatively short entry, because I didn't do much. I left New London and settled into my parent's apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan. I sent my resume to every corner of the world (well, at least Manhattan), for months on end. I had the occasional interview, but none of them worked out. I worked as a personal assistant to the editor in chief at Cosmopolitan Magazine, Kate White. When I say personal assitant, I don't mean that I went to an office daily. I simply took care of random things that she couldn't get to in her ridiculously crazy life. This was my main way to keep busy and stay close to the magazine world. In September, I served on a jury, which was one way to get paid. (In one sentence, it was for attempted second degree murder. The trial was nearly as good as Law and Order, albeit longer and without the cross-examination melodrama.) A fellow juror recommended a temp agency, which I used for a few weeks. Then I got the call that change my life...

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A full time position is a mixed blessing. Sure you get paid, feel fulfilled, and are challenged daily, but you don't have all the free time that you did when you were floating your resume around. Free time that could be used to blog away. Men's Health is in the midst of closing its May issue, which means we're swamped here. Emmaus may not be as glamorous as you'd think, but it still manages to produce new and surprising monthly tidbits for washboard ab-ed men everywhere. Stay tuned for more news on the writing behind "Ask Men's Health" questions as well as the sidebars I wrote. Oddly enough, my recent college experience--not necessarily my personal experience--proved very useful for a college sex article. I'll holler soon.

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