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

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by exmediahack, Jan 4, 2024.

  1. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    Go.
     
  2. PaperClip529

    PaperClip529 Well-Known Member

    You never know, you may end up loving life in the “boring” city as well!
     
  3. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    And corporate has fired 60 percent of the "head count" in the last 9 months.
     
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  4. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    You should definitely go. Lots of people stay in jobs they no longer want just because they don't have or get other opportunities that are of interest to them. You have one.

    Lots of people don't work for people who treat them well. That's a very valuable thing in a work environment.

    A $20,000 a year raise is a substantial bump, particularly at this point in life. You'd do well to take advantage of it, even if it ends up only lasting a couple years.

    It sounds like you want to anchor again, AND you're in a position -- living solo without having to consider the needs/desires of others too much -- to do what you truly want. So do it.

    As someone else said, nothing has to be forever. You certainly shouldn't make an unhappy workplace be forever if you don't have to.

    Decision made?
     
    Last edited: Jan 4, 2024
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  5. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    I heard the other day what the origin is of "break a leg." It applies to actors because it means you're "in a cast."
     
  6. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    I smell a Lifetime movie.
    "Cynical big-city media member moves to a 'boring' market only to find love again and realize that where he lays his Laz-E-Boy is home."
     
  7. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    And the town gets saved by a bake sale slash danceoff.
     
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  8. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Jon Hamm just got wood and heard a bell somewhere.
     
  9. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Do it. Take the gig with the money and the fresh start. You can always move back in retirement.
     
  10. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I just wanted to say "thanks, all". I've needed to get out of my own "echo chamber" on this.

    I've, truly, earned this opportunity -- right place, the right time in a region I know fairly well.

    Besides, what is the point of living in my paradise if -- for the last 6 months -- work and life has me too beaten down to go do the things I love doing here when I'm off?
     
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  11. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    The Valvano quote reminded me of a line Elliotte Friedman once used here: “don’t fuck with happy.”

    More money, getting back on air and being in a market where the customers care about the product you’ll put out. It’s a no-brainer.

    Unless your new state hasn’t legalized sports gambling.
     
  12. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Chest pains at the current job tonight. Again.

    Three reporters had so many mistakes in their scripts that we had to kill their stories.

    Sheesh.

    (Decision made.)

    Thank goodness I have an incredible producer alongside me to navigate this crap.
     
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