Liz Whiting was done with her desk job. After graduating from the University of Maryland, she landed her first “real” job in the marketing department of a travel agency but kept up the freelance marketing and content creation she had done since her sophomore year of college. “I just wasn’t happy,” says Liz Whiting, explaining why […]
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