How many jobs have you had since you started posting here?

I came here June 2006. Until last August, when I became a teacher, I was at the same shop between 1999 until then.

 

Just one. I should have not tied myself down.

 

I felt like being nice.

 

Columbia, Mo. (or if it's in the body of a story, Columbia, Missouri)



I'm going on three (in the span of four years, yeah, I get around evidently)

 

Just lucky, really.
Happened on an opening that at the time was focused on media relations.
After I got the job, went back to school to get a marketing degree.
Jumped on every professional development opportunity during the past seven years.
I've been very fortunate to work for a great college that has let me grow into the larger job.
And I worked for a great boss for my first six years.

 

Interesting question. I'm on my sixth.

 

First half of 2009: copy editor on universal desk, 40K daily in the Midwest

Since August 2009: copy editor/assistant news editor/whatever else is needed, 20K daily in the Pacific Northwest

Having lived out west nearly five years ... never goin' back again! Regardless of what job I need to stay here.

 

Five - newspaper, radio, radio, web, web. Time for a new challenge, though.

 

Started here in 2008 (different handle). Was a sports reporter at a small daily. Became a sports editor at a smaller daily in 2011, then switched to the desk at a midsize last year.

 

Started posting in 2007, lurked a couple of years before that. I've been in 2 journalism jobs, with a break in between due to a layoff.

 

Feb 2003

Reporter
ME
Producer
Booker
Producer
Coordinating Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Unemployed! (ouch!)
Freelancer
Supervising Producer
Executive Producer
Social Media Director
Digital Director

My dad pretty much had 1 executive position that lasted 55 years at the same multinational corporation. Times change, huh?