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

Maybe it’s because you get used to it, with so many job changes in the media business (and other industries too), but other than when I left my first full time job, I don’t remember being emotional on my last day. Actually, in a couple cases, I was quite excited to be leaving.

Yes, you leave behind colleagues you enjoyed working with and some of whom became good friends. But as a rule I pack my box of belongings, wish everyone good luck and walk out the door without looking back.

 

None of my friends — people who would bail me out or get in trouble with me — are from newspapers. Those newsroom friends I made were of a time and place that no longer exists. I have fond memories of folks I worked and hung out with, but I’m not really in contact with any of them.