Every Peter Parker/Spiderman needs his J. Jonah Jameson, which is why – even though the number of people working in your career field is projected to decrease slightly between now and 2022 – you'll still have a job in twenty years.

You could be like Amy Einhorn, the editor who saved Kathryn Stockett's The Help from being rejected sixty-one times instead of just sixty. Did no other editor Stockett approached know a bestseller when they read one?

You could be like Jill Abramson, who was famous for serving as the first female executive editor of The New York Times...until she got canned.

Or you could be like Anna Wintour, who's had the same haircut for over twenty-five years but still gets to be a fashion leader because she edits Vogue.

Will you ever be a star like these editors extraordinaire? Probably not...but at least your gig will exist two decades from now. Copy editors wish they had it so good.

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