Situation ...

It also depends on the unemployment insurance requirements. If Unemployement requires you to accept any job offer, then you really probably should take it.

Either way, you take it, keep sending out resumes, and it won't look so bad on your resume that you're currently employed. It's easier to get another job when you already have one.

 

This.

 

Think of it as working for a team or alumni mag.

 

Let's say CONSERVATIVELY you're going to work a 40-hour week. Assuming you're getting the full $24K (and the no benefits thing would stop me immediately), you'll be making something along the lines of $11.5 bucks an hour. If you push 50 hours a week, you're looking at about $9.20 an hour.

If McDonald's offers benefits (and I have no idea if it does), you might actually come out ahead, financially, flipping burgers.

 

What does "bait for their business" mean as directed to coaches? I don't understand how someone giving a photo of a team to a coach has anything to do with upcoming news coverage. Can you elaborate on this?

But as far as taking the job ... what everyone else said. It's a job, and if you need it, you need it.

I don't think what HE does affects your credibility.

You cover the stories you're assigned or come up with (whatever your job description calls for). You're not the publisher, so if the higher-ups want news slanted or rah-rah or whatever, that's not your call.

 

Regardless of anything else, I would not take a job without benefits.

You are lucky to get an offer in a month.

I am just not sure it's one to take.

But like everyone else says, you gotta go what you gotta do.

 

I thought this post would be about this guy:



My advice, in all seriousness, would be to take it and keep pumping out those resumes. It's easier to find a job when you have a job.

 

He essentially tries to bribe them by giving away free stuff. Which probably doesn't sound bad, per se, but is certainly something I'm not used to.

 

Reading this made me think of the stories we heard a few years ago about CoachesAid.com. Expect those guys got paid better...when they got paid.

 

But bribe them to do what? I guess that's the part I am not understanding. To cooperate with stories that are essentially feel-good pieces?

 

I will never understand the "easier to find a job when you have a job" thing.