What WOULD it take for you to leave this business?

[ColbertNation]

All I need is someplace to go.

 

[Idaho]

A job I liked, giving me the flexibility I now enjoy.

 

[SF_Express]

I agree with that, SF, but in the meantime newspapers honchos are making knee-jerk decisions with peoples' lives, and few newspapers seem really interested in putting the manpower and resources into really doing a bangup job on the web.

It's sort of an after-market add-on.

Yeah, I hoped to be careful to not diminish my contempt for what traditional newspaper companies have been doing as threy've thrashed about in the wake of so many bad decisions -- with so many good people looking for work.

I'm just saying, in the long term, a young person getting into the news business -- in whatever form -- isn't doomed to a life of pain and angst and diminishing opportunities.

 

[SixToe]

Just waiting on a guy to say the word.

 

[Angola!]

Getting laid off.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Working at one of the 450 papers in America on the selling block. I don't want to leave, but if I lose that job, I'm done.

 

[Prince of Persia]

I'm working at a trade pub after four years of working for a newspaper. My company just laid off 100 people and we expect more cuts by the end of the year. if I get the boot, I'm probably done with the industry and will go into teaching.

 

[Some Guy]

I'll probably keep working until the checks stop clearing. Or until they send security by my house to confiscate my company-owned laptop.

Until then, I'll keep holding my breath and plugging away. I like to live without a safety net.

 

[TrooperBari]

It's hard to say. There's no money in any of the things I might want to do instead of this. I'd just as likely try to find a gig overseas than bail on this business.

What would it take? A gig where I enjoy the work and have some creative outlet. If the latter is lacking, I'd probably find myself stringing all over again.


EDIT: Or a sugar momma. I'm not above being a house husband.

 

[KevinmH9]

Being less five months out of college, I've already decided to switch careers and head back to school for another year. I didn't find it worth my time take a job with a four-year degree with a salary that I could be making while being a cook at a local restaurant. I love the business and the industry of sports writing, but the lack of job security and the horrible rate of pay just wasn't what I was expecting.

I'm already in the process of switching careers and I hope to be fully acclimated into something else within a year from now.

 

[STLIrish]

Like SF said, I'm still waiting for what's next at this point, a new ship, if you will. I think there'll be a place on it for people like us, and I'm watching for the opportunity to get there, or carve out the opportunity myself.
I worry, though, because that seems to be taking awhile to happen, and the ship I'm on is sinking faster all the time. So, maybe a good scholarship to law school.

 

[Joe Williams]

Being less five months out of college, I've already decided to switch careers and head back to school for another year. I didn't find it worth my time take a job with a four-year degree with a salary that I could be making while being a cook at a local restaurant.

Oh yeah? Don't be so sure. My cousin's son just got hired as head chef at a Chicagoland restaurant for $80K. Plus free use of a leased 2008 Infiniti SUV. And his previous job was as one of the cooks at a steakhouse in Florida.

Good luck to you, though, Kevin.