First Real* Job!

I just accepted my first real job, to start January 4. Hooray!

I'll be working as an editor with A K Peters, a small publisher of college textbooks. They publish a lot of mathematics and physics books and are the leading publisher of computer game designing books. Don't worry: I don't have to check the math. Scholars do that. So you can all rest assured that none of your computer games will start spouting staticky Shakespeare anytime soon.

I am really excited about the job. In a numbered list, here's why:

1. It's in Natick. I get to stay in Boston!
2. It will be an editing position! What could be better?
3. I like everyone in the company. (It's quite small.) They are some of the nicest people I've met.
   
4. Because the company is small, I'll get to have a broad range of experience. When I was choosing a major a zillion years ago (that's an exact mathematical quantity) two specific things tipped the scale in my choice to go into English and editing. One was the day I spent job shadowing the editor of a radiology journal. She was working at a very small company where she got to work with manuscripts at all stages of publication. Her work sounded fantastic. And she had a very cool pantsuit. Ever since I've been hoping for a similar sort of opportunity: to lend my writing expertise to those who are experts in their subject matter, and to get to be involved in all parts of a project.

So I'm having a very merry Christmas looking forward to a working new year.

*By "real" job I mean no offense to any of my previous jobs, which have turned out to be really good experience (even if they didn't seem like it at the time) but really short term and really not a real career. Dion's, nannying, Sandia internships, research assistant, teaching assistant, data enterer, freelance editor, Friend intern, teacher. And of course all the really good experiences (too many to list) that were really valuable and that really didn't pay me so they didn't count as real careers either.