What would you not miss?

Hours, followed closely by idiot readers.

 

i voted idiot readers.

The hours don't bother me. I despise waking up early.

 

I've been away long enough from the daily grind to know what I don't miss: the hours and the pay.

No matter where you go you'll have co-workers, bosses, and most likely daily stress to deal with. You'll also have idiot readers, but you'll just call them idiot customers. Probably no headlines or all local fronts, though.

 

The pay. Not having any perks. Bad hours. Not having lots of vacation, sick leave, personal days.

 

I would not miss the bullshit that surrounds the teams I have to cover. The power trips by media relations, the changing of plans at the last minute and not telling you, the "rules" they want you to follow but never bothered to tell you. The team trying to squash your sources, and lying not to your face -- instead just far enough away that you catch wind but can't pin it on them. The BS is waist-deep and I'm really really tired of it.

 

Write-in vote:

Friday football idiot fans and callers.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/46467/

 

The stress. The hours. The unappreciation of others, particularly readers and management.

 

Pay, I would put up with lot more shit if I made a little bit more money. The Bosses suck, you can never do enough, they want eight stories a week, you do that and they want 10, you do 10 and they want 12. The hours suck also, I would love to just be a sports fan again, taking a day off and going to a game.

 

Not to be a dick, but I go to games on my days off all the time. My job has nothing to do with my status as a sports fan.

The key is, you gotta find a way to take some time for yourself. Whatever that is for you.

 

The thing is the area that I live in if I show up at a game the paper is going to get calls from parents the following day about why there was no article in the paper about the game. This town has nothing other than preps and the days off that I have are built around the fact that there is nothing going on those days.

 

I would love to dump the stress. It wrecks the life.

Those of us who work at night give up nightlife, weekends, holidays and hurricanes/tornados/All that weather shit that makes you come in and work.

I haven't had a good Christmas or Thanksgiving holiday week in 20 years, and how do you date when you work at night and on weekends?

I might accept all that bullshit if there wasn't so much pressure and stress every time I walk into the place. Nasty people to work with, also. No team concept at all.

What's keeping me here? Not much, buddy.......Not much anymore.

 

Stress here. Maybe if I could deal with the other stuff better it wouldn't be such an issue but that's life. I've been trying like hell not to care about what I'm doing in hopes that the other crap won't impact me as much but as much as I try, it's damn hard not to give a shit about what you do for a living.