Are friends/family shocked at your salary?

So, am I the only journalist in America who thinks he gets paid plenty?

 

Nope. I'm still perfectly happy with my job and my salary.

That said, I hold no hope for maintaining that in the long-term. I'm not a shoe-will-drop type of person, but there is no doubt in my mind that the shoe will eventually drop in some way.

But I'll enjoy this life until it's gone.

 

True, to an extent, but a lot of people have had things happen to them that are no fault of their own.

 

And F_T knows that as well as anybody, Mark.

Hate to be rude, but that's called life. You play the hands you're dealt. And, as he said, it's up to you to enact change in your own life if you want it.

 

She's a bully.

 

Not to presume to speak for him, but I don't think the poster was trying to say that he deserved a better beat at a bigger paper or that he had been screwed out of anything. I didn't see him blaming anyone but himself for where he's at.

But, yes, I am in agreement entirely that if one is unhappy, then take the bull by the horns and create another path for yourself.

 

Saw Zach and Miri Make a Porno last night.
Hilarious. Maybe that's our Plan B.

 

The fact that I'm proud of my paltry salary at my current career stage is probably laughable to all but the lowliest of college grads.

 

Vacation? Sometimes you can make a vacation out of a road trip... but road trips are becoming a rarity.

Personally, I'd just like to know that sometime before I'm 60 I can afford to live in a place with a washing machine.

 

Once I'm moved on, anyone fool enough to want my job and the lousy salary can have it.

The suits have always treated this like a business, while the journalists treat it like a calling. That is the journalists' undoing. I'm not falling on the sword anymore. Like it or not, it is a business. I write, they pay. I've just decided that they're not paying well enough anymore. I applied to four jobs this week, none in newspapers. I love the work, but at this point, I'm over it. Time for me to grow up and take a job I may hate for the prospect of better security of my family. It's called a sacrifice.

 

My Plan B is to open a bakery. I'd be much more comfortable doing that.

If that's growing up, I'm not interested. It's far more important that I do what I love. Money can buy some people happiness, but I'm not one of them.

I know I won't make that much money, and my family knows it too. There's no surprise involved, I know the sacrifice I'm making.

 

The question is can you do what you love in this environment?
Do you love writing? Or do you love writing plus blogging (which is pure shit), video blogging (which is ridiculous), taking pictures, filming your subjects? Do you want to be a writer/TV person/radio fuck all in one? All for minimal pay? No raises? No advancement ever?