Why I Quit My Dream Newspaper Job After 4 Months

Well, let me dogwalk you through this. No one is making fun of her for caring about her dog.

People are making fun of her for writing about it, to shine a spotlight on herself for her compassion for animals, when all it actually does is reveal her immaturity and ignorance.

Everyone cares about their goddamn dogs. They hire a dog walker, or get a neighbor to check in, or they rush home every day to let them out.

If I was dumb enough to ask a prospective employer about how to take care of my dog during the workday, and they were kind enough to educate me about the existence of dog-walking services, I wouldn't write about it with the idea that it reflected positively on myself.

 

Thank you for the patronizing. You may not have been making fun of her for hiring a dog walker, but others were.

And the definitive statement I put in bold has been dispelled in this thread. Some don't see a need to have their dogs let out during the day.

 

Dick is all:



"And why?"

 

"[O]r they rush home to let them out."

 

Your last sentence just explained why we're resistant to change.

 

But why? Where does this originate?

 

Likes.

 

A lot of us have been freelancers. Many have done it quite a lot, for quite a while, and quite successfully, for many major and/or reputable media organizations.

Think back to your days of doing it regularly.

Now, could you have imagined, even in your wildest dreams, ever going from doing that, to being a supervising editor at the L.A. Times?

It's mind-boggling.

 

You're dogs are locked up in your private quarters!

Bring them to me. I'll take them for a walk.

 

It takes chutzpah to make the choice to have a dog, and then ask people to pay up to support that choice. She should try a GoFundMe drive.

 

Yeah, but they did offer to pay for a dog walker. You think, at times the dog wished Mike Vick were his owner?

 

A 50ish woman skipped a rather important afterwork meeting at my place the other day because she needed to go home and let her dogs out.