Catering the ideal first job

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Why catering is the best first New York job you can have.

By Katherine Goldstein|Posted Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, at 7:32 AM ET

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Passing hors d’oeuvres was one of the fun parts of catering

Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images.

The first priority, on arriving in New York in September 2006, was to get some kind of job. I was 22. I knew that I should try to get my foot in the door with a position, no matter how lowly, in my field of interest: publishing. But my attempts to find entry-level work fell flat, and it was time for some quick thinking.

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