Yes, the Liberal Arts Prepared Me for My Job
5 min readNov 20, 2021
You can write for a living. I’m proof.
I’ve been a writer since before I could read. As an elementary school student, I constantly found myself putting the stories told to my class by teachers into rhyming verse. In middle school, I wrote plays for fun that won contests hosted by local theaters. In high school, I served as Editor-in-Chief of my small school’s yearbook and newspaper for…