I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.