Why You Should Join CAFME

Hi, everyone!

We want to remind you that this week is your last chance to join CAFME!

Why should you join CAFME? First of all, you will get to meet other people who are interested in the industry and love magazines just as much as you do! This is an easy way to not only make friends but to also network.

But you should also join CAFME because it is a club where students meet to

1. Enjoy a love of magazines
2. Learn about internships
3. Learn about jobs and local companies through guest speakers and trips
4. Enable real students like you and I to make friends within our area of interest who later become contacts at various companies and lifelong connections

Breaking into the magazine industry can be hard, and you must research your competition if you want to be competitive. We've all heard “there are so few jobs out there” or “you should pick a more lucrative major.” But then again, we want to do what we love. And for many of us, it’s writing… or taking photos… or using social media … or editing… or creating moving multimedia pieces.

Through CAFME, you can keep an eye on what other students with similar career aspirations are doing and gauge what you need to do to stay involved and be a top-notch journalism student in preparation for when graduation comes and you're thrown into a competitive job market.

But you should also get involved with CAFME to learn about other students' experiences and share your own. We are all in this together. It’s by making connections and meeting people (the right people) that you can make your dreams start becoming a reality (or maybe just draw on their experiences to figure out what you want to do with your life).

There are students who sit back, and there are students who work their way to land their dream job (or just an in-between job for now) or a job in general (upon graduation). Employers will look at how you spent your time in college. Joining CAFME is a great start for students wanting to get involved. Our members hold positions and are part of ALL kinds of campus publications and have completed all types of internships (from small to large, from local to big cities). We are a part of the Ed2010 of UNC (we are all involved in various campus publications as Ed members are involved in all kinds of magazines). We get together and have a good time. We learn together and help each other. Did we mention that CAFME won the Ed2010 Best New Chapter Award last year? That certainly doesn't look bad on a resume.

So please make sure to pay your dues this week. All you have to do is bring $10 to tonight's meeting or pay our treasurer, Ana, outside of the Union tomorrow from 9:30-11:30 a.m. or Friday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

If you don't pay, then you will no longer be on our listserv, have access to the blog, or be able to participate in meetings and the great events we plan throughout the year!

If you were a member last year, you must rejoin this year.

We want you to join CAFME not only to help us become a stronger organization, but also to help you become a stronger journalist. We can't emphasize enough the opportunities you will miss out on by not joining CAFME, so we hope to see you this week!