Sports Writer, The Cullman (Ala.) Times

I'd invite you to call my publisher and ME at the place I am right now and ask them how accountable I am. I was fired for something ridiculous. Not that it mattered, really. They paid me about 5k less a year than what I'm making now. For $9/hour, I'm not going to give them my entire fucking life.

 

The days of staying in one place for 50 years are gone. If you get fired, you learn from it and move on. Life goes on. Many times, it turns out to be a blessing in disguise.

 

I pray this is not true. I'm hoping to be inducted into the local sports HOF in 25-30 years as a contributor...

 

A Brookie woman covering high school sports in Cullman County? This is the screenplay westcoastvol has waited a lifetime to write.

 

This is the same paper that once fired its then one-person Sports staff in late August - AFTER he had written, edited and laid out the entire high school football preview section.

I wouldn't put too much stock in the "career suicide" argument, given the employer.

 

I'm fairly certain she was fresh out of school, too. Going from Mountain Brook to Tuscaloosa to Cullman is culture shock.

 

Both of my brothers are suits in non-journalism fields and they would certainly agree that emailing resumes from office account would go against the not trashing the previous employer.

 

By the way, is this job filled now or what? Just curious.

 

She found a landing spot: https://twitter.com/APSE_sportmedia/status/250980081546194945

 

I would say she did very well then.

 

Well, considering she had the job before leaving Cullman, I wouldn't call it a 'landing spot'. But it could be a good place, I don't know much about the HS sports in NY.

 

Actually it could be considered a landing spot since you don't quit a job until you have another one.