The New York Times.
Our mentor and guide waits for us in the lobby and I notice that her enthusiasm is not quite a match for ours but, excited to be in New York City, I choose to overlook.
The newspaper tour winds us up in the in-house cafeteria and we settle in for answers, when I decide to ask the question:
“How do you get a job at The New York Times?”
To which she replies:
“It’s next to impossible. You really have to have a relative that already works here and in a very high position.”
After such an informative tour, after such an incredible build-up, she goes on to explain that these positions are highly coveted, making the competition very stiff. She concludes with a warning that trying to get hired at The New York Times will likely lead to disappointment.
Imagine.
Now, sitting with my coffee, the memory of her sharp and dampening reply is a realization that she was one of those “somebodies” who had rained on one of my parades.
As I look through the editorial section I catch myself being in awe of Maureen Dowd for being someone who was special enough to be writing a column for the New York Times. I catch myself accepting that writing a column for The New York Times is something that I will never achieve because I’ve been subconsciously believing those words from the woman with the pin that bursts other people’s bubbles.
And you?
Whose cloudy words have you mentally typed and then filed? Maybe its time to realize that just because they said, it doesn’t make it true!
What is possible for you begins with what YOU believe can or can not happen.
If you believe that it can’t happen, then it never will. If you believe that it can—
then it just might...
Dana
