MY YEAR OF BEING BRAVE
May 12, 2019
4 minutes
Words © Kerry Potter / Telegraph Media Group Limited 2019
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This time last year I vowed to be braver in my career. I wasn’t earning enough money and was bored after years of freelance journalism. What else was out there, I wondered? I began to dip my toe into other types of work – consultancy, PR, marketing, events. It wasn’t easy. I felt nauseous every time I said no to a writing commission to focus instead on something untested. I stayed up all night writing my first-ever PR client pitch, brazenly thought I’d nailed it on the day… and didn’t get the gig. I politely sat in
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