Seize the stepping-stones. If the job you’re looking for is taking awhile to find you, take the job that leads you closer. It may not be totally perfect, but if it gets you into the world you want to be in—e.g., being the assistant to an agent if you want to be an agent, working in an ad agency as a secretary if you want to be a copywriter, working at a restaurant in the fashion district of your city if you want to get into fashion, anything that will put you in contact with the people you want to meet and/or the skill set you need to learn—jump on it. Learn everything you can, meet as many
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