Meet Erica Liburd, senior Opera major at SUNY Purchase College.
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by Maya Tavorath-Dangmann
A blender rumbling and grinding in the juice bar below, drowning out the sound of pop music playing through unseen speakers, is the soundtrack to Jeff Benjamin’s work day. Sitting in the lounge area of an Equinox gym in Lower Manhattan, he busies himself with making a quiz his editor asked him to put together. Laid out in front of him is a planner with bullet-points of tasks he wants to get to throughout the day. “These days I just write everything down and go for it,” he said, leafing through his planner. “Freelance has been interesting to me but I do somewhat miss that structure. For a while I was feeling really overwhelmed.” Jeff Benjamin is Billboard’s K-Pop Columnist, but he is also working as a freelance journalist. Having started working at Billboard after graduating from NYU as a journalism major in 2012, Benjamin used that opportunity to build up a name for himself and continues to do so, even after having been laid off. |