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I was 21 and in my third year of a journalism degree in London. I was moving house (shoebox) every couple of weeks, did a 30-hour job on "the side" and in between, I sent out emails, applications and pitches like my life depended on them and it sort of did. Usually, I wouldn't get an answer, but if I did, it'd be something like, Thanks for getting in touch b[...]