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Oct. 5th, 2021 04:33 amWithout looking to confirm, this is probably the longest I've gone without posting. It's because the main thing going on in my life is the job search and one thing I absolutely can't stand is when people post about that every step of the way. It's a long-and-mostly-awful process and I don't understand people who get really excited about every opportunity without so much as an interview to show for it yet. I've got a couple of irons in the fire and hopefully one of them will turn into something but until I sign an agreement, that's all you'll hear about those.
But something happened yesterday that I thought I'd share. A position came up for a food and restaurant reporter at my local paper recently, and of course I applied. It was a little shocking that it hadn't shown up in any of my daily automated job searches and someone else told me about it. And someone else pointed out that maybe they should have reached out to me since I'm probably the most active food writer in the county.
They called yesterday to see if I was interested in interviewing for the position and I'm grateful that they were up front about the salary so we could decide if it was worth even talking about it. The reason it wasn't is because it'd have been a nearly 50% pay cut. I wasn't overly optimistic about that when I applied, but was still shocked by how low the pay is.
Teaching and journalism are two of the most important professions but you can't make a lot of money doing either.
Side note: I'm going to my first concert in a very long time tonight. Front 242 at Neumo's in Seattle. I'll be staying at a hotel in my old neighborhood, a few blocks between two of my old apartments. I just looked up how much parking at the hotel is and was glad I didn't really want to do anything but the concert, a simple dinner, and maybe some walking around. Yeesh.
But something happened yesterday that I thought I'd share. A position came up for a food and restaurant reporter at my local paper recently, and of course I applied. It was a little shocking that it hadn't shown up in any of my daily automated job searches and someone else told me about it. And someone else pointed out that maybe they should have reached out to me since I'm probably the most active food writer in the county.
They called yesterday to see if I was interested in interviewing for the position and I'm grateful that they were up front about the salary so we could decide if it was worth even talking about it. The reason it wasn't is because it'd have been a nearly 50% pay cut. I wasn't overly optimistic about that when I applied, but was still shocked by how low the pay is.
Teaching and journalism are two of the most important professions but you can't make a lot of money doing either.
Side note: I'm going to my first concert in a very long time tonight. Front 242 at Neumo's in Seattle. I'll be staying at a hotel in my old neighborhood, a few blocks between two of my old apartments. I just looked up how much parking at the hotel is and was glad I didn't really want to do anything but the concert, a simple dinner, and maybe some walking around. Yeesh.
