If anything, I felt this one tried to cover *too* many important millennial topics to its detriment? And only skimmed them for the sake of it, rather than exploring a handful of the most interesting ones properly. The slightly cringeworthy humour put me off this to begin with, but I eventually fell into the main characters and their relatable dual storylines of extreme burnout, crushing creative self doubt, and the bubble burst realisation that your ‘dream job’ might not be such a dream after all. So, as soon as I saw the premise, I was all over Careering.

Will she wake up to the way she's being exploited before her protégé realizes that not everything is copy? Can either woman reconcile their love for work with the fact that work will never love them back?ĭuring my time at uni, instead of going to lectures which could have actually enriched my mind, I spent many solitary weeks untangling necklaces inside dingy fashion cupboards and feeling sick at the thought of asking editors what they needed me to do next. Harri, at the other end of her career, has also been bitten and betrayed by the industry she has given herself to. Neither woman is aware of the crucial thing they have in common. But Imogen's fairy-tale ending soon sours as she finds herself putting more and more of herself into writing for a company that doesn't care if she sinks or swims. And she thinks Imogen's most outrageous sexual content will help generate the clicks she needs. She's moving from the glossy pages of Panache magazine to launch a fierce feminist site, The Know. Harri might just be Imogen's fairy godmother. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any job. Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine.

Careering by Daisy Buchanan