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"Angry Journalist #9068:
#9057: Why would I see a shrink? I feel far less depressed than I did the day I wrote my initial post, but the future still worries me a great deal. I cannot afford to move out until I get a good-paying job. And who knows when that might happen in this abyssal state of the economy? I feel like my life is on hold until I find a job. In the meantime, I divert my attention cranking out stories that I don’t enjoy doing so I can get my mediocre per-story income. Going into journalism has really fucked me over. I want to urge j-school students everywhere to consider something else."
LOL. I love angryjournalist.com. Even worse, I sympathize with it.
Today will be the day from hell. I have to call the parents of a star high school pitcher who dropped dead of a sudden heart attack at age 18 to get comments for the front page story I'm doing on it.
In the meantime, a typical news story involving COAH and low-income housing will have to be turned into a sensational feature about this couple who is fighting with the town because they want to continue paying lower taxes beacuse of their income, but they want the ability to sell their house for fair-market rate. And this deserves a feature??
Oh, and I also have to turn this other routine story about substitute teachers into front-page material.
To top it off, I have a planning board meeting tonight about a separate affordable housing issue in which residents are complaining that a housing development for disabled people is going up behind their houses. And I have to write that tonight, since deadline is tomorrow.
Seriously, I wish I had a gun. Or a noose. Or poison.
#9057: Why would I see a shrink? I feel far less depressed than I did the day I wrote my initial post, but the future still worries me a great deal. I cannot afford to move out until I get a good-paying job. And who knows when that might happen in this abyssal state of the economy? I feel like my life is on hold until I find a job. In the meantime, I divert my attention cranking out stories that I don’t enjoy doing so I can get my mediocre per-story income. Going into journalism has really fucked me over. I want to urge j-school students everywhere to consider something else."
LOL. I love angryjournalist.com. Even worse, I sympathize with it.
Today will be the day from hell. I have to call the parents of a star high school pitcher who dropped dead of a sudden heart attack at age 18 to get comments for the front page story I'm doing on it.
In the meantime, a typical news story involving COAH and low-income housing will have to be turned into a sensational feature about this couple who is fighting with the town because they want to continue paying lower taxes beacuse of their income, but they want the ability to sell their house for fair-market rate. And this deserves a feature??
Oh, and I also have to turn this other routine story about substitute teachers into front-page material.
To top it off, I have a planning board meeting tonight about a separate affordable housing issue in which residents are complaining that a housing development for disabled people is going up behind their houses. And I have to write that tonight, since deadline is tomorrow.
Seriously, I wish I had a gun. Or a noose. Or poison.