RIP Joe McKnight

That's self-directed. If you miss enough deadlines you lose a job, that's not about pressure.

I used to think my job was filled with pressure. Now it's the easiest, least stress-free part of my day.

 

Yeah, all that self-directed pressure, and we make deadline by 20 minutes every night.
Five minutes if it's "down to the wire." But it's tough to get the stopwatch out of your head.

 

Deadlines aren't pressure? Funny, but I always got a high from making one under a time constraint, so I guess that high was just in my head

 

It's all relative.

 

I wouldn't want somebody running my sports desk who doesn't feel a little pressure at crunch time.

 

There's enough cushion in deadlines that you can blow one by a few minutes here and there.

I did it all the time, including when my paper was the first run off a press that staggered and printed five others after us.

 

People are different. I fancy myself Joe Montana running a two-minute drill when it comes to cranking out a gamer on deadline, but really let stress get to me trying to potty train our first kid. I have a good friend who I'm sure would lose his shit in a lot of newsroom situations, but probably prevented a dozen bar fights in college because he has a natural knack for deescalating those kinds of situations.

 

That's not what I said. I work with a sense of urgency from the time I pull into the parking garage. I am ALWAYS on deadline. However, there is no real pressure relative to other demands I face.

Also, running a sports desk is not that difficult.

 

Comparing the pressure of working as a police officer and a sports desker really seems like an important issue.

I'm glad we had this talk.

 

I said there was no comparison. These other diphits are the ones trying to argue the point.

 

OK. But you were fishing for that reaction. Mission accomplished.

 

I'm good like that.