My first gig after college was a year-long internship on the op-ed page of USA Today. My official job description involved fact-checking columns and getting quotes from famous people on whatever topic the late Al Neuharth wrote about in his column that week.
I had been uncertain about taking that job, versus trying to find one at a small daily newspaper where I could write frequently. But eventually I had a realization: Getting in the door counts for a lot. Once in, you may be able to change your job description. I asked to start writing headlines and began doing so. As I fact-checked columns, I saw what kinds of columns got accepted. I started submitting columns that looked like the accepted ones. By the time I left that internship a year later, my job had morphed into a gig regularly writing columns, and I was named a member of the paper’s Board of Contributors.
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