Katherine Boyle

So it's on me, and they're right.

Even today, my colleagues are like, it's amazing you can actually work at a company.

You are such a disagreeable, and they mean that lovingly, but I am not someone who doesn't say what I think.

I am not someone who takes orders very well.

So I think they probably looked at my character after, it's like spikes in certain areas, probably very good at getting information and meeting people, talking to people, doing the things that you need to do.

but also probably not gonna be able to deal with the culture.

Probably for the best.

I mean, things always work out the way they are.

I think she did me a favor.

But it was definitely like coming out of college, 24, no idea what I was going to do with my life.

And it was sort of serendipitous how I ended up at the Washington Post because I had taken a job and I had friends who were already sort of in and they're like,

You've got to be in D.C.

Just take a job.

Take any job you can get.

And so I got this kind of ridiculous copy editor job, but it was at a newspaper called The Express.

So if you've ever been in D.C.

and you've gone on the Metro, it's the free Metro paper that the Washington Post hands out.

And everyone who's ever been on the Metro remembers this paper, loves this paper.

It's sort of this snarky, free newsletter thing.

And they needed someone who was just good at writing, but on byline, so you don't have a record that you worked there or whatever.