My ignorance of the recession. Until now.

This morning, as I made my routine rounds on some of my favorite sites before my professor arrived at my first class, I came across this. Let's just ignore the fact that I get much of my daily news from Gawker for a second, and take it in, people. Twenty-five percent to be cut at Conde Nast. A whole fourth of Conde, including many valued staff members, to be thrown out on the street like Anna Wintour's lightweight jackets of last season.

Now, I'm a proud veteran of an incredible Hearst internship, and that's where much of my editorial love still lies. But 25% is a whole lot of jobs. I know I sound ridiculously naive right now, that we're obviously still in a big recession, that magazines have been a dying industry for a long time, blah, blah blah. Maybe it's exactly because of my experience in the magazine industry that this news really hit home. This seems selfish, but until now, I had never really tried to imagine myself in this crap economy. Because as a full-time student, I never really had to. For whatever reason, thanks to this article, it finally clicked.

I just don't know how worked up I'd be if this had happened at Hearst and actually affected any of the wonderful people I worked directly with. What I do know is, the fact that experienced workers are getting laid off left and right in a field that I would truly enjoy a job within, means that there's no chance in hell anyone over there will want to hire little ol' me. I guess the only thing I can really do is try to make myself as marketable as possible, to take my webbie skills, improve them, and run with them. Right? Help!