"Getting out of the business" resource thread

Can't be. People (and he's not the only one) continue to use "onboarding."

 

Perhaps he can self-correct as he transitions into his best new life.

 

Thank you, I think.

 

Let's circle back to that, after we put a pin in our discussions regarding last month's spend.

 

Just want to make sure that it's on your radar.

 

Do you have the bandwidth to tackle it?

If not we can discuss at the next all hands.

 

We may need to collaborate and coordinate on this.

 

Not related to the plight of smallpotatoes, but this "getting out of the business" retrospective by Josh Vitale was a good read.

One year later, explaining my decision to leave sports writing; the only job I ever wanted

 

It’s not really a plight at the moment.

 

"I didn’t work 24 hours a day, but I felt like I had to be “on” for all of them. You never knew when something was going to happen."


Welcome to being a beat writer.

 

Don't want to sound unsympathetic to the reporter, but how many times, when he was recounting his sacrifices, did he say some version of, "I know I didn't have to do this, ... "? I admire his commitment and his desire to not take shortcuts or have mail-it-in efforts. But at what point was he running himself into the ground for his own self-image of what he was "supposed" to do as opposed to running himself into the ground to serve the readers?

 

Beat writing creates a lot of onerous demands, along with weird emotions and anxieties.