If you get laid off or bought out what will you do?

I really have no fuckn clue what I'm going to do if I get layed off. I do know, I'm desperately searching for a new gig, which as most of you know, is very tough since the market is flooded with a lot of quality journalists right now.

 

16-0. Holy shit.

 

i'm gonna work in the cart barn at the local muny. I have experience in this field, and you get to play for free, too.
during my last forced sabbatical, i got my handicap down to about a 3 because i spent time hitting balls and playing.

 

I'm guessing a lot of people that have been in the bidness a while know how hard it would be to find a similar-level job ($$$) somewhere else. Lots of young, inexpensive kids ready to take your place.

Plus, if you have roots, family, kids, etc., why would you move for a job at another paper that probably doesn't have any better job security?

 

Don't do what I did, namely fuck up your life royally for six or eight months because you refuse to acknowledge you're under severe emotional stress.
Those looking for work outside newspapers are on the right track. Oddly enough, we DO have skills that are desirable to employers besides papers. I'm working in a business I didn't know existed when I was at the Herald. It's not as much fun, but there are lots worse jobs, and it's a good company.

 

A very good friend of mine once answered me thusly when I suggested that another journalism job might be a good fit for him:

"This rap game, this rap game,
I ain't sellin' my soul for this rap game,
I ain't diggin' no hole for this rap game,
This rap game, this rap game

"You know what I mean? There's nothing in this business that would be worth moving my family, giving up an unbelievable mortgage/home equity situation and uprooting from a place that truly feels like home."

*****

That's where I am now. I'm not going to chase better opportunities in this business, because I don't think there are any. I'm in a good situation. If it stops being a good situation -- and judging from the speed of deterioration elsewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if it does -- I'm finding something else to do, right here at home.

 

I voted that I'm staying in journalism, but I don't expect to be laid off or bought out any time soon. I'm at a 16K family-owned daily, so we don't have the corporate jackals or the stockholders to ruin our shop.

I will say this: When I took this job a year ago, I said I'd stay 2-5 years and then attempt to move up. Now I look at the stability we have in our shop and the cuts being made across the country, and I realize I'm probably going to stick around here a little bit longer.

I can, however, understand everybody else's trepidation when it comes to staying in this profession. And I don't think leaving the business is an indication of a lack of desire or passion. But this is all I know how to do. So I'm not leaving anytime soon.

 

Don't do what the guy in Orlando did.

I think the layoffs were the hardest on the first ones hit. Now everyone is getting hit and it's just become something that everyone in the field has to deal with either now or in the not-so-distant future.

 

Great, the shutout is ruined...

 

Sorry Mizzou.

 

All we want is honest answers... I thought it might be 60-40 or so, but the results are pretty amazing.