What would you not miss?

Obviously, we may need to add additional options to this poll.

When I left the business three years ago, it was with a very heavy heart. But I have to admit, the one thing I don't miss is the constant threat of an all-local front, especially when there really isn't enough good news to qualify.

 

The pay. The bosses. The hours.

 

I voted hours. Idiot readers were close, though.

Many days a boring 9-5 job seems pretty good.

 

Hours, stress, readers. Don't miss any of 'em.

And you forgot the idiot managers.

 

I voted the same way.

 

I voted the hours, and really that is the biggest improvement for me since I left (not so much the number of hours, but the graveyard shifts). Idiot readers were a close second. It's so great to be able to pick up the phone at work without worrying that it's 50-50 that there's an irate moron on the other end ready to tear you a new one for the most retarded of reasons. Oh, and I don't miss the fear of walking in tomorrow to find that a few more of my friends and co-workers have been sent packing.

But I do miss the people, and I do miss the craft. But I find that I can still hang out with those people outside of work, and that I can scratch the itch in ways other than working a fulltime newspaper job.

 

Nearly nine months after getting out, there are a lot of things I don't miss. But the hours would still top the list. It's going to be nice to go home tonight and actually watch the alma mater.

 

For me, the whole all-local front was especially painful at times because it was a small-ish community, which meant fewer reporters. Despite our best efforts, enterprise efforts were few and far between, although we constantly discussed trying to do them.

 

We can always change the co-worker part to idiot co-workers...that would nicely include the managers.

 

Wouldn't miss the hours or the ME at all.