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So sad, in response of congratulations to shino6's pay raise, I calculated my own pay raise. I'm only making 75-cents per hour more than when I started here 2.5 years ago.
And to explain a bit more, I didn't get canned. I handed my notice in because I need to examine if journalism is where I really want to be. (I'm pretty excited about another career path.) But where I am now, as a copy editor and page designer, there is no up. I've topped out. I've gone as high as I can get without help. I've plateaued.
There are very few options at this point:
1. Stay and be content (and taken advantage of) forever, which doesn't have a very pretty outlook. The pay sucks. The social life sucks.
2. Leave, but stay in journalism. If you want to move up, you have to leave, and do something else for a while. To continue this career path, you would need to leave, and go back to school for a masters in management and come back to journalism on the management side. Or, go back to being a writer and work your way up to city editor or features editor. Even this path you hit a ceiling. I think only rarely would you get to be editor in chief from those titles, or you can leave and better yourself by going back to school again.
3. Leave, and reinvent yourself.
I'm leaning toward #3. But even if I could get median pay for just being a proofreader in the LA area, it would be a huge step up financially.
Sure, this job sucks, but it has its good points. I'm leaving on good terms. My boss didn't shitcan me (she only needed my resignation in written form for the file).
And to explain a bit more, I didn't get canned. I handed my notice in because I need to examine if journalism is where I really want to be. (I'm pretty excited about another career path.) But where I am now, as a copy editor and page designer, there is no up. I've topped out. I've gone as high as I can get without help. I've plateaued.
There are very few options at this point:
1. Stay and be content (and taken advantage of) forever, which doesn't have a very pretty outlook. The pay sucks. The social life sucks.
2. Leave, but stay in journalism. If you want to move up, you have to leave, and do something else for a while. To continue this career path, you would need to leave, and go back to school for a masters in management and come back to journalism on the management side. Or, go back to being a writer and work your way up to city editor or features editor. Even this path you hit a ceiling. I think only rarely would you get to be editor in chief from those titles, or you can leave and better yourself by going back to school again.
3. Leave, and reinvent yourself.
I'm leaning toward #3. But even if I could get median pay for just being a proofreader in the LA area, it would be a huge step up financially.
Sure, this job sucks, but it has its good points. I'm leaving on good terms. My boss didn't shitcan me (she only needed my resignation in written form for the file).