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Careering

Daisy Buchanan
Chapters (64)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-One
  45. Chapter Forty-Two
  46. Chapter Forty-Three
  47. Chapter Forty-Four
  48. Chapter Forty-Five
  49. Chapter Forty-Six
  50. Chapter Forty-Seven
  51. Chapter Forty-Eight
  52. Chapter Forty-Nine
  53. Chapter Fifty
  54. Chapter Fifty-One
  55. Chapter Fifty-Two
  56. Chapter Fifty-Three
  57. Chapter Fifty-Four
  58. Chapter Fifty-Five
  59. Chapter Fifty-Six
  60. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  61. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  62. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  63. Epilogue
  64. Acknowledgements

Cover

About the Author

Daisy Buchanan is an award winning journalist, author and broadcaster. She has written for every major newspaper and magazine in the UK, from the Guardian to Grazia. She is a TEDx speaker, and she hosts the chart topping podcast You›re Booked, where she interviews legendary writers from all over the world about how their reading habits shape their work. Her other books include the non fiction titles How To Be A Grown Up and The Sisterhood, and the novel Insatiable: A Love Story For Greedy Girls.

Dedication

This story is for every person who
has ever messaged me and asked
me if they should quit their job.

Our jobs are our private fantasies,
our disguises, the cloak we can creep
inside to hide.

A Month In The Country,

JL CARR

Chapter One

Cupboard love

Imogen

‘Through sharing my most audacious desires…’ Audacious, or outrageous? ‘…outrageous desires with my rapidly growing readership, I am confident…’ Oh. Is that too much? It’s such a thin line, with job applications. How do I convey that I’m dazzlingly and uniquely talented, while sounding just the right amount of desperate, available and cheap?

I’m writing this, sitting on an upturned bin. Well, my left cheek is on there, anyway. The right one went numb some time ago. The best thing about being exiled to the fashion cupboard is that it guarantees a little privacy for ‘personal admin’. (The worst thing is that an intern can occasionally get forgotten about, locked in and sometimes get left overnight. Rumour has it that this happened to a girl called Bella when she was working on a posh lifestyle mag called Trunk.)

For all of my efforts, it’s possible that no one in the Flair HR department will even read this letter. I know, from bitter experience, that CVs do not hold any weight. No one can be bothered to read beyond ‘Imogen Mounce, 26’. Even though I’ve made up a Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, purely as a creative writing exercise.

There’s probably another intern, a Millicent or an Isobel who is already in situ, lined up for the role with all the right qualifications—uncles on the board, old school friends on the Beauty desk. I got very lucky when Mum named me after her favourite Jilly Cooper book.

On paper, I can pretend to fit in. I don’t think my CV would even grant me access to this cupboard if my dad had got his way and called me after Michelle from EastEnders.