Sports reporter wanted to cover Va.Tech

I admit, I was a little surprised at the salary range. First, that they posted one at all, and second, because that seems a smidge low for a prestige beat at one of Virginia's two top papers. But it's a quality job where your stuff will absolutely be read, and you'll go heads-up with a gaggle of good young talent.

 

To me, I like living away from where I work.

Maybe you would be a semi-celebrity in Roanoke as well, but I like not bumping into people I would work with (or cover) constantly. To me, that is worth the drive.

 

Operator: 9-1-1. What's your emergency?
Devil: My house is on fire!
Operator: We'll send the fire department immediately, sir.
Devil: Well...I'm sure the firefighters here in town are semi-celebrities and get annoyed at all the attention they receive when they go to the grocery store, so do you mind sending the fire department from two counties over? They live in relative peace way over there.
Operator: /dispatches no one and lets Devil's house burn to the ground.

 

Thanks everyone for attcking me when I say something positive about SW VA and Tech.

 

So Slater's covering South Carolina, former Va. Pilot beater Kyle Tucker is doing Kentucky and his replacement Andy Bitter is fresh off a stint on the Auburn beat. Maybe there's some legs to that Virginia Tech to the SEC talk after all!

 

Please. You're not being attacked. The silly notion that you'd be some kind of celebrity in Blacksburg because you're one of a half-dozen people covering the Hokies and that would drive you to live an hour away so you could blend in with the common folk more readily? That's what's getting "attacked", though "made fun of" is the more accurate turn of phrase there.

 

No problem.

It's a hell of an opportunity in this day and age, and I am sure this job will be ultra-competitive in the interview process. Whoever gets this gig will have a hell of a resume and clips folder.

I am in a position now where people know me before I know them, and I am just not crazy about that happening on weekends when I am out with my family. That is why I live 40 miles from where I work.

 

Dude, I'm your FB friend and if you paid me $100 right now I'm not sure I could tell you your name.

 

None of my co workers are my facebook friends. My life and work are two totally seperate things.

 

I agree on both counts. You also have to factor in furloughs, which have been quite regular occurrences at MG papers. So that might be more like $40-45k.