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

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Go.

 

[PaperClip529]

You never know, you may end up loving life in the "boring" city as well!

 

[exmediahack]

When Lean Dean bought our paper in 2005, we became one of about five he owned in the region, with the hub paper being in a bigger town an hour away. After about a year, it was obvious that this paper was calling the shots for the region and I made the comment that, "X-paper will probably just absorb us and we'll become a glorified bureau." I was tersely told that would NOT happen and that they have a commitment to the region.

Then the advertising department got outsourced to X-paper.

Theeeeeeeen the printing press, which was just installed four years earlier, was shut down and printing of the paper was now down at X-Paper.

Theeeeeeeeeen they sold the building and moved into a storefront.

Sounds like a glorified bureau to me.

I say all this to say that if your gut says they won't be open, you're probably onto something.

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

 

[WriteThinking]

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?

 

[TigerVols]

Sounds like a done deal. I'll offer a good luck... or break a leg if that applies to TV.

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."

 

[justgladtobehere]

You never know, you may end up loving life in the "boring" city as well!

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."

 

[Octave]

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

 

[Slacker]

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."

Jon Hamm just got wood and heard a bell somewhere.

 

[tapintoamerica]

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

 

[exmediahack]

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?

 

[wicked]

The Valvano quote reminded me of a line Elliotte Friedman once used here: "don't fork 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.

 

[exmediahack]

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.