I agree with Anonymous (not verified) - the one who noted the shocking elitism of the magazine industry.

I spent five years working in the editorial department at a trade publisher (Ziff-Davis). Several of my colleagues tried to make the jump to the "real world" of magazines and were rebuffed in a very cruel fashion. I jumped online as soon as I could because for the first time my words wouldn't be mauled by a clueless committee. Today I make more from my online writings than I ever did working for a magazine. I'm amazed that people still want to work for magazines and fear that the schools charged with grooming new writers are caught in a time warp.