Remember how Anna Wintour’s daughter, Columbia grad Bee Shaffer, just couldn’t find a job? Well, even though she has a degree in theater and wanted to stay out of mom’s publishing world, Bee has finally landed herself a gig – as the assistant to Ricky Van Veen, the editor in chief of College Humor. No word on whether Bee will actually have to run errands and get Van Veen’s coffee or if she’ll just get to be the “pretty girl” in Vimeo videos, but either way, she’s got something to put on her resume now. Congrats, Bee – and good move sticking with the internet instead of the ever-dying world of print publishing. And if you ever have any workplace horror stories you might want to send this way, I totally promise to keep your identity a secret.
Now, let’s just hope there are some jobs left for the rest of us.
Bee Shaffer, the daughter of Vogue editrice/notorious boss Anna Wintour, is just like a regular person! She may get to join Mom in the front rows of fashion shows, but she took a less predictable route by studying theater at Columbia University. Now that Bee is out of school, she’s applying for jobs – and, oddly, hasn’t had much luck. Yes, it turns out that the recession affects even the daughters of legendary magazine editors. According to the New York Daily News:
The 22-year-old former Teen Vogue contributing editor went on a staggering 24 interviews since graduating from Columbia in May – all of them unsuccessful.
Part of me wants to be all bitter and “well, I sent out easily 200 resumes without getting a single interview, so suck it up already,” but part of me is also like “man, if it’s hard for this girl, imagine how bad it is for everyone else.” I think it’s safe to say that no one likes the job search process, especially when it’s your first job. Going on dozens of interviews and not having any of them pan out is embarrassing and disheartening. [I think Post Grad covered that fairly well.] Repeated job rejection getting to be a universal human experience, and that’s pretty depressing.
So, good luck, Bee, and I admire that you’re choosing a career other than the one where it would be super easy for you.
