Low Paying Jobs

Sorry, thought this was a Singleton thread.

 

No use, really, dragging you into the wayback machine to 1977, when I started in radio at $125/wk. Within a year, after an interim stop at a weekly, I started in Nashville at $175/wk. And I thought I was rolling in cash at that point.

 

I made more money mowing grass for rich people when I was 15 than I made in my first journalism job.

 

Central Texas (resort town), 1992, $325 a week. Apartment was $600 a month. Do the math. The pay was less than what my two college jobs paid me.

I learned a lot and like FNF said, there was no one there to teach me a damn thing. You have to learn from your own mistakes (assuming you find them) and make the move up as soon as possible. A year later I jumped ship for an extra $55 a week to a place where editors helped me tremendously.

 

lol

 

Started first full-time gig in 2003 as SE for weekly chain in Chicago 'burbs making $24,500. Was bumped to $27K in six months, was making $30K before leaving for the daily world last October.

 

I don't miss these days:
In 1990, I made $8.88 an hour and put my wife through grad school...in Los Angeles!
How the hell did we do that? I have nightmares about a lot of Top Ramen and tuna.

 

The $22,000 CDN I made three years ago is actually starting to sound a little bit better, although I still think we're bitterly underpaid at this paper. I guess it's the 60+ hours a week, and that story I used to tell about how people on Employment Insurance actually made just $5 less than us a week. I know I'm barely scraping by, so my kudos to you guys who were making much less.

 

As recent as 2001, JRC New England cluster starting pay 8.50

 

My first job out of college paid me $60,000. It was with the New York Times.















I wish

 

He also did some things with books, like those "As Told To" sort of things. I remember some of his stuff and, thinking back, he seemed like pretty much of a hack.

 

You may want to look at the thread i just started on having a blog/biz on the side of your full-time job. There's a great article about it in the NYT today.

In this day and age, $23,000 is a joke to live on, i dont care where you are.
401k?
IRA?

When ESPN.com is giving Wright Thompson $170,000 to write online and for the mag and do a few TV apps ...