Jason Feifer

I'd love to give everybody a little taste for yours.

I started not having any idea what it is that I wanted to do, but I knew that I like to write.

I knew that as a reporter, people will just tell you stuff.

It's kind of amazing, actually.

You just go out and you say, I would like to interview you.

And they say, come on into my home and let me tell you all the things.

That was a pretty...

unbelievable experience.

I started as a community newspaper reporter.

It was just the only job that I could get.

The very, very beginning, I was at Gardner News, Gardner, Massachusetts.

Tiny little paper, North Central Massachusetts, covering nothing because nothing's going on.

I did it for about a year.

It was a grumpy year for me because I felt I'm too good for this place.

I have all these ambitions and I should be writing for the New York Times.

Two things about this.

Number one,

What a jerk.

Because the thing is, if I was too good for that place, I wouldn't have been at that place.

We need to stop wherever we are and say, what can I learn from this experience right here, right now?