Sports reporter, Anchorage Daily News

It is now listed twice on Anchorage Daily News' jobs list. It was first posted on July 7 and again on July 31. What, no one wants to live in Anchorage?

 

We had a guy in our building — in a completely different department — go up there for a job recently.

I'm sure the scenery's great, but the whole "Summer solstice with 24 hours of functional daylight" would probably make me batshit crazy.


EDIT: In Barrow, Alaska (way, way north of Anchorage) the sun doesn't even fucking set for 84 days. Which means, I'm sure, that there's an extended period of darkness in that particular city come winter.

Again: That + me = batshit crazy.

 

You would think they have thicker blinds/curtains to help everyone sleep better, right?

 

Theres no women in Alaska

 

Then where do little Alaskans come from?

 

I almost took a job in Alaska once . . . I wound up in Montana instead. Probably about the same. And yes there are women there, but the ratio of men to women is totally in our favor. It was 4-to-1 last I read.

 

But on the plus side, you probably get to cover the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic:

http://www.goldpanners.com/midnight_sun_game.html

 

There's just something cool about a sports called "mountain running."

What do you do?

I'm fucking mountain runner, bitch. Go buy me a beer.

 

They multiply by masterbation.

 

If you're single with no family and few close friends then this would be a perfect job. Grow a beard, buy a bunch of North Face...think of it as an adventure ;D

 

In that same vein, a close family friend of ours was a union organizer in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau for a year. Her first thoughts on Fairbanks? "All of the men in Fairbanks are either on the pipeline or on the run from something."

Still, she liked her time in Alaska.

 

I hear the housing is pretty affordable. [/obligatory Eskimo joke]