If memory serves, I did my first interview for an article at age fourteen.
Young, I know. More importantly, I had no idea what I was doing. Back then, I thought the word “interview” meant asking the subject a few questions and you’re done. I had no clue, therefore, that there was actually a science to conducting an interview.
I realized I sucked big time when I got home and started to piece the answers together. While trying to reconstruct the subject’s answers, I found out that I …

As I mentioned sometime ago, I’m a big fan of WaiterRant.Net, the blog that launched a thousand eyebrows with its sometimes too painfully honest depiction of the restaurant business. Despite the “rant” in the title, the blog doesn’t devolve into some “I will either slash your neck or my wrists” sort of emo thing. It’s funny, truthful and always entertaining.
So you could probably imagine just how many cartwheels I did when I got a reply from Waiter. I sent an email asking to interview him, and he …