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How Do You Not Take It Personally When Your Creation Goes Wrong?
When your project shows flaws or other imperfections, how do you not take it personally?
I have an amazing job. It allows me the time I need to pursue my writing career, while massively engaging my creative mind.
In this job, I’m a personal assistant (working from home), and the “manager” of my amazing, creative entrepreneur boss’ enterprises. Two of the larger elements of this are a fashion magazine and a podcast network.
During the year-and-a-half I’ve had this job, I went from assistant to the editor-in-chief of the magazine, to assistant managing editor, to managing editor. I had a hand in nearly every article and element that went into the latest edition.
Without ascribing blame to anyone or anything, for many reasons we were delayed in producing the magazine. We aimed to release it in March — and barely made our deadline. But not without errors.
Fortunately, the primary element of the magazine is digital and print-on-demand. Meaning we aren’t printing hundreds or thousands of copies at publication. And that’s good — given that we’ve now had to correct elements of the magazine multiple times since releasing it to the world.
