Internet Sports Editor -- Long Island, N.Y.

[update!]

Job post on Craigslist:

http://longisland.craigslist.org/wri/333317552.html

 

[lantaur]

If it's posted on Craigslist, it must be quality.

Compensation: . The terms are $10 an hour, 25-hour work week. Two weeks paid vacation time. No benefits.

 

[update!]

Lantaur:

On the face of it, you are right.

But as the current editor of the site looking to make the hire, and as someone who has worked as a staff reporter in the N.Y. Metro market, I can tell you this position is potentially much more lucrative than most reporter and copy editor jobs posted here.

Not to mention fun.

Would you rather cover 5-10 high schools and a D-II college for a 50,000 circulation paper in Anytown, USA? And get beaten down by the banality of the job to boot...

Or would you rather take a chance on a startup that offers you a chance to gain management experience, Internet and graphic skills, along with the fact that you set the agenda on fantasy sports each day.

FYI: Employees on the ground floor of startups that succeed get paid well in the end. That will be no different here.

Appreciate you all for looking.

J. Andrew
Editor,
Fantasy Sports Update!

 

[Cadet]

A fantasy sports startup? I'll pass, thanks.

 

[sportschick]

A part-time job that pays $10 an hour on Long Island? No thanks. I prefer not having to live in a homeless shelter.

 

[WSKY]

What a Web site! I really like the "WTF!" portion — real quality sports journalism here. The has-been flippin the bird is a real nice touch.

 

[SixToe]

I'll take the beatdown and banality, thanks.

 

[hockeybeat]

You can more money tending bar at Mulcahy's in Wantagh.

 

[Mighty_Wingman]

I'll take the beatdown and banality, thanks.

Don't forget, it's banality with benefits, which this great opportunity lacks.

 

[Jack_Kerouac]

Buy guys, come on, it's not just Fantasy Sports Update, it's Fantasy Sports Update! That mere exuberance lends it some credibility, right? :

 

[Angola!]

I thought I owned the exclamation point on this site.

 

[Songbird]

Angola! that was quality. You're the only exclamation point in my book

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

I thought I owned the exclamation point on this site.

You might have the exclamation point, but I have the underscores.
MUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA(!)

 

[sportsnut]

Be nice and give them a chance.

 

[WSKY]

Angola! that was quality. You're the only exclamation point in my book

You have to pay extra on your subscription for that

 

[PageTurner]

A part-time job that pays $10 an hour on Long Island? No thanks. I prefer not having to live in a homeless shelter.

I'm not saying this is a great job but to your comment.........sometimes a part-time job is the answer so one can gain experience

 

[Prince of Persia]

A part-time job that pays $10 an hour on Long Island? No thanks. I prefer not having to live in a homeless shelter.

I'm not saying this is a great job but to your comment.........sometimes a part-time job is the answer so one can gain experience

But you are not getting much, if any, "journalism" experience with a fantasy sports website. If it fell under the Yahoo! umbrella, then that's something different, but not something like this.

 

[hockeybeat]

$10 an hour for 25 hours equals $250 a week, before taxes.

A monthly Long Island Railroad ticket to Huntington is $238. So, once a month, you're clearing a whole $12. And that's if the office is next to the Huntington LIRR stop.

 

[PageTurner]

A part-time job that pays $10 an hour on Long Island? No thanks. I prefer not having to live in a homeless shelter.

I'm not saying this is a great job but to your comment.........sometimes a part-time job is the answer so one can gain experience

But you are not getting much, if any, "journalism" experience with a fantasy sports website. If it fell under the Yahoo! umbrella, then that's something different, but not something like this.

That's why I said,"I'm not saying this is a great job". I realize that this particular position won't be a resume "wow!" and to go even further,probably an "eye roll". I was commenting more to the remark about the pay in general for living on LI. My point was that sometimes one has to fill in the blanks when digging the trenches.

 

[WSKY]

If it's simply a Web site, why even have to move to Long Island? Take the crappy pay and move to Kentucky where your money will go a long way.