Yes, the Liberal Arts Prepared Me for My Job

Samuel Clemens
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…

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Samuel Clemens

Financial news writer by day, political commentator by night. Former economic policy analyst. Founder and Publisher of My Side of the Aisle.