Being an editor...

I was thinking of maybe trying to be a book editor when I grow up, and then I read this novel about a guy trying to survive as an editorial assistant - salary $17,500 - in Manhattan where all the publishing jobs are, and that's the essential first rung on the ladder, and he had cockroaches in his bed and was an illegal squatter and stole condiments for breakfast, so I thought, maybe not? Don't know. Anyway, I couldn't make it in cutthroat New York, not in a million years. It's disappointing because my vision of being a book editor is curling up with a bunch of excellent manuscripts and making incisive suggestions. Yeah, reading all day. Not being a businesswoman and reading manuscripts in the wee hours. :/