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Hello, and welcome back to Control of Delete. This is a replay episode from 2022 with the author Daisy Buchanan.

She's an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster. And in this episode, we dig into the themes in her novel, Carreering, all about the toxic relationship we can have with our jobs.

Hope you enjoy listening to this one.

So welcome, Daisy, to the podcast. I can't believe this hasn't happened before, from being honest, but this is always going to happen.

I'm really glad we're doing it now so much to talk about. So welcome.

I'm so happy to be here. I think I've possibly been on many years ago in a different incarnation. So I think so.

Our paths of cross and zigzagged for years and years. And actually, I wanted to start off with just talking about your career at the very beginning.

And when we met at the debrief, that sort of magazine era, you write about that so well in your novels and also in other variations in your articles.

But I feel like that's really synonymous with who you are. I always think of you when I think of magazines.

They are your first love, aren't they? In many ways.

Oh, they really, really are. And I was that girl. No one I was at school would felt this way.

But I've, you know, met, you know, you, another woman in my career, have that sort of that passion and that nerdiness.

And so when skipping forward a little bit, my first magazine job was at Bliss magazine, the teen girls max sadly now to funk.

And it was this lovely sort of big, shabby office kind of out in the middle of nowhere in Temperature Wells. And there were piles and piles and piles of old magazines back as she's just 17.

American imports things like sassy, which I loved.

When did you first know that you had a bit more of an obsession than maybe your friends or that you thought you could do it?

Because and this wasn't really an inkling of like knowing I wanted to be a writer, but I remember stealing a just 17 magazine from my babysitter and putting it down like the back of the toilet.

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