Sports Writer, Junction City, KS

From Journalismjobs.com

The (Junction City) Daily Union has immediate opening for beginning sports reporter to cover Fort Riley and area high school sports. This is a full-time position with salary ranging from $20,000 up, depending on experience. Company offers health and dental, paid life insurance, six paid holidays each year, five paid sick days each year and two weeks paid vacation after one year of employment. Send resumes, clips and references to m.editor@dailyu.com.

 

Just kill me now. Go ahead. $20K a year full-time? And salaried, no less, meaning no OT. With no — none — paid vacation the first year. This is brutal. Just grab some schlub off the street with an ability to string three or more words together and give him a computer. Clearly, quality journalism isn't the goal here.

 

They're not trying to get a quality applicant. They're just hoping the right guy falls out of the sky into their lap.
* A hometown person.
* Fresh out of college so they don't know $20,000 is low (unlikely that they don't, but one can always hope).
* "Vacation" is Thanksgiving and Christmas at mom and dad's.

I used to work at that kind of place. And actually, it was amazing how often they lucked out and got that kind of person.

 

Terrible town. Awful.

 

All that AND you have to wake up every day in Junction City.

 

You could live in Ogden, where the people that aren't quite classy enough for Junk Town go.

 

Operation Junction City, named after this city, was the biggest offensive undertaken by US troops, and the only operation to heavily rely on airborne troops, in the Vietnam War. It probably had more chance of success than whomever gets this job.

 

The fuck's that supposed to mean? Good enough for a solider, but not good enough for anyone else?

And, now that I think about it, that's a pretty disgusting stereotype of Army wives. I'm waiting for an explanation.

Awful fucking broad brush your painting with.

 

If you move there, do you get to call yourself one of the "Junction Boys?"

 

The strip clubs are cheap and the strippers are at time pregnant, so that's nice, ya know, for something different. Expecting or not, they'll beat the bejesus out of you with your belt in exchange the lint in your pocket. So I've heard.

 

Is this town like the Great Bend of Eastern Kansas?

 

I've been to Junction City and I wouldn't take a job there if it was the last one on the planet. It may have changed since I was there 30 years ago (although I doubt it), but it was called Junk City for a reason that had nothing to do with trash and debris.