MARY GABLE

This is wonderful. Copy editors (copyeditors?), you’ll be able to relate.

I never necessarily aspired to be a copy editor. I enjoyed the experience-seriously, your job is to sit and read articles-but when my day-camp counselor asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I did not tell her that I hoped one day to correct who-whom mix-ups or determine whether “faucetry” was a real, dictionary-approved word. I told her I wanted to be a princess.

What It’s Really Like To Be A Copy Editor | The Awl.

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