stylist’s editorial director lisa smosarski shares her career wisdom
Once, work milestones were linked to climbing the career ladder – becoming a manager and hitting a certain pay grade – which explains why, at the age of 28, I challenged myself to secure three editorships before I turned 30. I wanted to climb more rungs of the ladder, so I took magazine, my third editorial role, three months before my 30th birthday. But I hadn’t considered the optics of hopping around so much, and I never stopped to think what I might learn if I’d have stayed longer, so it is no accident that when I moved to ,