Fifth-worst job: Newspaper reporter?

That's what careercast.com says:

http://www.careercast.com/content/top-200-jobs-2012-181-200

It ranks below maid, dishwasher and waiter/waitress, among others.

Broadcaster isn't much better.

Depressing (albeit from one source) take on our business.

Are they right?

 

Hell no - newspaper reporter should be first.

I'll have to look at the Harris Poll to see who is fucking up our ranking....

 

Sure am glad I'm an editor on days like this. Top-10 job, right?

 

Easily. I mean, we're responsible for all the reporters with crappy jobs, and we get paid marginally better. What more could you want?

 

Firefighter was 185th. What surprised me, a bit, was that based on their hiring outlook criteria, there's some professions that are much, much worse when it comes to getting a job.

 

Naively, obviously, I STILL think this is a great business, but must be living in the past.

 

I love my job (almost) every day, but I don't love the business.

 

It's become an interesting way to inform and stay informed, but the buisness is no longer a mid-professional, sustainable career.

 

It's kind of skewed because it gets a high "stress" ranking, though.

The people who go into deadline reporting kind of thrive on that, no?

 

Newspaper reporter is a great job. But it's a terrible way to make a living anymore. The paper here in the town I live in (as opposed to the one where I work, 20 miles up the road) is now staffed almost entirely by recent college graduates. My guess is that two people on the entire staff are older than 25. Cheapest newsroom around and the product reflects that. And you can bet that most of that staff will move on within the year and be replaced with even cheaper talent.

 

Yes, if money weren't a factor at all, we'd be up in the 150s.