If you could switch, what would you do?

1) Auto reviewer
2) Music critic

 

Inky ...
You find us some advertisers, funky can get the start-up expenses covered and I'll find us a tech expert and our webzine will be ready to go.

We can all work purely for fun and eat the fish you catch to keep us alive.

 

in a pleasant development, dr. idaho has convinced hospital administrators to support the new outdoors site through advertising. they will also kick in the start-up expenses. many of these outdoor activities keep the mind and body healthy, a win-win situation for all.

i just got off the phone with my realtor. she has a nice mountain chalet for me to check out. she says it's overlooking a hidden gem of a stream filled with cutthroat trout.

 

healthy bodies are bad business for hospitals, technically. But that hypocratic oath and stuff ...

So who all is on our staff?
Since Uma is the sugar-mama, I'm the editor in chief with the Tour de France assignment.
ServeItUp is our endurance sports guy
Funky/Inky get the fishing, camping and hiking beats
I'll take cycling, speedskating and some other Olympic sports

Who's got skiing?
What else needs covering?

 

someone needs to take take kayaking/canoeing.
someone else might need to take high-altitude climbing, rock climbing, etc. i'm toast at 12,000 feet and don't like being strapped to a rock face with more than a 40-foot drop.

 

Soccer beat writer.

If that doesn't work out, food critic.

 

That would be Charlie LeDuff. He doesn't actually seem to write that many stories for the New York Times lately. In fact, a quick Google News search comes up empty. Must be too busy with books and TV. But he used to write for them about drinking. A gig I'd take. And, in another stretch, about working. I'd do that, too.
But my first choice, at my current home anyway, would be city enterprise GA. Wander the streets. Tell their stories. That's all.

 

charlie leduff no longer works for the ny times.
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12305
http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/070212_prince/ (scroll down a bit)

 

I don't like your rules, Six Toe!

I dream of being an Olympics reporter, but we barely touch anything above the high school level. :-\ I guess that's out...

Do I have to take a job that currently exists at my current shop?

I'd like to write sports features full-time, no more of the high school call-ins or endless Friday nights editing football stringers. We don't have a big enough staff to create a position like that, though.

 

Sorry. Maybe next time the thread will be the "Anything, anywhere dream job."

If that were the case I would choose to be like the late Johnny Apple, traveling and eating my way around the world.

As for Idaho's little outdoors plan, it needs a medical writer. I'll volunteer for that.

 

If by medical, you mean fitness, nutrition and recovering from injuries ...

You're HIRED!

We need DocTalk on board with us, too.

 

Once upon a time, plenty of folks wanted to be a journalist and/or get into the newspapers.

Now, sadly, plenty of folks are looking around to get out, and that's not good.

It's so sad what has happened to the biz. WashPost took on the president once, and that was good. Now most papers suck up to a horrible president, and what the f*ck is that all about?

Big reasons why Joe SixPack and his lovely wife don't look to the media for answers anymore. This corporate media stuff has ruined it for anyone who wants the truth, the bottom-line truth, about anything and everything.

Geez, how bad it is these days, and how good it could have been -- and should have been.

Discuss at will.