A career in food journalism satisfied Sophie Devonshire’s tummy, but little else. So she has embarked on the School Direct route into education
Three years into my career as a food and lifestyle journalist, I was told that I’d have to kill the person above me if I wanted to progress on that particular food magazine.
It’s no secret that career advancement in the industry is slow and there’s no shortage of mustard-keen writers to fill roles, 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, guzzling cocktails and browsing brownies on Instagram – all in the name of research.
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