First job out of college

The "Too picky?" thread has me curious.

 

Pizza Hut.
Our circulation was much better than any of these. Boy, did we influence society.
Seriously, though, 38k.

 

250K, give or take.

 

Not to be a jag or anything but do the results tell us enough if we don't know the nature of the job?

I know folks who got high-profile writing jobs at smaller papers who did well and were happy and moved on quickly. I also know folks who got clerk-type jobs at very large papers, looked down their noses at the folks at the smaller papers and eventually came back down the ladder.

When asked about that first job they were proud to give the name of the paper but never, ever said what they did there. :

 

70,000 paper in Charleston, S.C.

Twenty years (and one move) later, I work 20% as hard and make 500% more money.

 

Dallas Times Herald
(now defunct)
Editorial assistant, promoted in 6 months to some reporting.
Still have the bylined clips

 

I started at an Ogden paper in Minnesota.
I then moved to a paper in Michigan that wound up being closed by Dean Singleton. I worked at an auto website that closed and a Scripps paper that closed.
Who knew Ogden would look so good?

 

I'm still working at the school paper, I guess its about time I move on since I graduated several years ago.

 

Can you put an "other" category up? Not everyone started out at a newspaper...

 

Started out as SE of chain of weeklies in 2003. Now I'm at a 40K daily.

 

I was working at a radio station when I graduated, but soon moved to a weekly.

Within a year, I was at The Tennessean, which at the time was probably 125K.

 

I started as news director of a radio station, then moved to a daily. A small daily, but print nonetheless.