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Monday, January 16

A New Year, A New Chapter

Yes, that's Charlie-the-editor behind me.
His excitement at having me around is palpable, isn't it?

Well, here it is. My official first-day-of-work photo. I am now a desk-sitting, daily-showering, non-pajama-wearing, travel mug-carrying, time clock-punching worker drone. With a bi-weekly paycheck. And benefits.

Today was my first day as a cub reporter at my hometown newspaper, the Franklin Favorite. Yep, I am getting paid to write, take pictures, and ctrl-c ctrl-v all day long, 5 days per week, 8 hours a day. Or 40 hours per week, which ever comes first. Overtime is forboden. I was told that before I ever had the job.

But who cares?! I have a deadline driven, nights and weekend working, every event in town attending job in which I get to do something I love.

I've been writing freelance for the paper for over a year now. When this job came open, I was asked to fill in on a temporary basis. I couldn't resist applying although honestly I sort of thought my lack of a journalism degree and I dunno, any experience whatsoever in the newspaper business would keep me from getting it. What can I say, the editor likes me, the people like me, and I pretty much told them that the longer they kept me around the harder it would be to get rid of me. Plus, I was already pretty much trained after 6 weeks of filling in....so.....I had that going for me.

Anyway, that was my day today. That's my life. Honestly.

6 comments:

  1. Congrats on the new (old?) job. Good to see how exuberant your boss is to have you around full time.

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    1. Thanks, Ms. Tara! He's one of a kind that's for sure. Sort of like Eeyore in a person. I just laugh at him.

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  2. Good for you. I hope this is the dream job you've always wanted.

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  3. congratulations

    if there's a way for me to read your brilliance online, please let me know.

    my friend Marsha, the journalist

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  4. Thanks, Cake!!!
    You can find my work on www.franklinfavorite.com and hopefully my byline will also be on there. Most of what I write is on the news page.
    It's a small, local paper, I hesitate to call it journalism. I just interview and write, that's all.

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