A career in food journalism convinced Sophie Devonshire’s tummy,but little else. So she has embarked on the School Direct route into educationThree years into my career as a food and lifestyle journalist, I was told that I’d maintain to kill the person above me if I wanted to progress on that specific food magazine.
It’s no secret that career advancement in the industry is late and there’s no shortage of mustard-keen writers to fill roles, and particularly junior ones. And who can blame them? I lived the dreamiest of dreams,visiting banana plantations in the Caribbean, stuffing my cakehole in the test kitchen, or guzzling cocktails and browsing brownies on Instagram – all in the name of research.
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Source: theguardian.com