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Job Opportunity Dilemma: Love Location or Love Cash. WWYD?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by exmediahack, Jan 4, 2024.

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  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    At my first paper, we'd wait to see it come off the press than walk across the parking lot to the one bar that stayed open late. Play pool with the locals 'til 2 or so. Back then I was a better-than-most pool player so it was a good supplement to my $16,000 salary.
     
    playthrough, Jan 24, 2024
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  2. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Update:

    Pulled me into the office on Friday. Said “today is your last day. You’re paid out three more weeks as a thank you for putting up with the shit we put you through. Go enjoy the sun before you go.”
     
    exmediahack, Feb 25, 2024
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  3. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Nice!
     
    Azrael, Feb 25, 2024
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  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Very nice. And also very rare in the TV business. Congrats. Here's to better health.
     
    MileHigh, Feb 25, 2024
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  5. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I imagine it may also be to “move on” from me. I’m not at a Costanza level of disengagement at work but I’m definitely not at my career rep of level of detail. And I don’t really care.

    Still showing up on time. Still sitting through all the meetings. Still fixing awful scripts. I just don’t care about trying to making bad reporters decent here anymore.
     
    exmediahack, Feb 25, 2024
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  6. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    A year later, a sincere “thank you”.

    Got my extension signed for a second year here - I was a little concerned given TV news has cut 500+ jobs between Gray/Allen/Scripps/Nexstar the last two months.

    Truly designing my life now. Even if I get tossed after my full three years, I will have enough to go back to Tropical America, play tennis, get my condo back (renting it) and go bartend at a tiki hut.

    Pondering taking SS early at 62 - as tomorrow is promised to no one - and let my 401k keep building.

    I am looking at the strip club business as well. Living my best life.
     
    exmediahack, Dec 14, 2024
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  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Congrats on the extension. Definitely not a good time to be in the TV biz. Just hit five years since my Nexstar layoff. Do not miss it or that trash company one bit.
     
    MileHigh, Dec 14, 2024
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  8. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Jeff Babineau's passing at 62 this week threw me a bit. I'm 50 but if I could somehow squeeze 10-12 more years out of my golf media job, I'd happily ride off. A massive "if" but I knew that when I jumped back into the biz after several years away.
     
    playthrough, Dec 14, 2024
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  9. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    ex, consider Central America. We just back from some time in Belize where everything was dirt (no pun intended) cheap. It was jarring seeing the haves, us gringos, and the have nots, but the lifestyle you can live on the American dollar is wonderful. And the weather is beautiful during the winter.
     
    wicked, Dec 14, 2024
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  10. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    Ex, are you considering the strip club as a business or as a perpetual customer? :)
     
    Matt1735, Dec 14, 2024
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  11. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Business.

    Burgundy’s

    or

    Dabbler’s.

    I’d get up there on stage in my anchor suit and give news updates at the top of each hour with two dancers accompanying me.
     
    Last edited: Dec 15, 2024 at 4:53 AM
    exmediahack, Dec 14, 2024
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  12. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    My son’s old soccer coach did this. Left for Belize at 54. Loves it.
     
    exmediahack, Dec 14, 2024
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