Do-it-all sports person -- Cumming, Ga.

Sounds just like my job right now. It ain't so bad being the only sports person. It is a ton of work, but I have total control of what gets in.

 

sounds as though you wouldn't know if you were cumming or going.

 

reminds me a of an old joke....

why are people in gainesville (ga.) so happy?

they're close to cumming

 

yeah, i heard it before i'd ever been to gainesville....

gainesville sucks

 

This is a tough job to do for 20k. In the ATL 'burbs? No Bankhead for who ever lands this. But, if the youngster thinks this out right, he/she can cover all the Cummings preps they want, but also find reason to sneek to Atlanta for the occasional pro/ GA-Tech feature or even gamer.
And I'm 4ever in agreement with Doc X, I'm sick of every paper here (even a 1,500 circ. in mudtown usa) claiming to be award winning. There should be a rule here. Papers are misleading people. So, unless it's apse, a state or regional journalism award, it shouldn't count. Papers should have to list which award. I was awarded a partipation trophy for middle school basketball. I played in 9 games and scored like 10 total points. Does that make me an award-winning basketball player?

 

Actually, you could definitely afford to live in Bankhead, which is ghetto fabulous. Buckhead, on the other hand, no chance.

 

Let me jump in here a second with a few observations.

I worked at the Forsyth County News from 2002-2004. It is a 4-day-a-week newspaper. I've never heard of a 4-a-week in the free world. There is a BJ's Wholesale Club in Cumming. I got tired of telling that joke to friends after a week. I won a state award for best lifestyle section in our size classification while I was there and you better believe that was on my resume. The ad people had nothing to do with it ... especially considering they barely sold ads while I was there.

At any rate ...

The sports guy in Cumming is good (Travis Chaffin) and deserves a better job (someone help him out of there, please). Swartz-Morris Media was not so hot on benefits while I was there (abysmal health insurance). My sister worked at another S-M newspaper and passed on the insurance (used her husband's better insurance).

Forsyth County is lily white. Its minority population was less than a decimal point while I was there. Oprah Winfrey did a program from Cumming a decade ago ostensibly to revisit its lynching practices of the past. There is a Tyson Foods plant downtown ... hard by the fairgrounds ... also downtown. Do the math. I had to live at an apartment complex 15 minutes from work because the closest apartments to the office had a lovely proximity to said Tyson plant.

I would suggest this wouldn't even be a good starter job. There are some good people in that building, a recycled hardware store next to a cemetery. That's almost appropriate. And that's all for me from Gastonia (not much difference, actually).

 

heh-heh, he worked in an S-M reference on a thread about Cumming ... heh-heh ....

Another demographics note : In the late 80s (which may or may not be relevant now) there was a huge KKK parade in Cumming, which at that time was pretty much rural. It's a suburb now, and a goodly portion of its population jumps on Ga 400 and drives to Atlanta to work every day.