Looking for a job

[Mayfly]

creaven, no need to raise the white flag man. It's all fun and games, I have taken a beating on this board too. I have been graduated from college for a couple months now and I am finally starting to get some nibbles. Look around the board here for the jobs that are posted, start asking questions to some of the senior members. Things will start rolling in no time.

 

[Write-brained]

OK, I raise the white flag. How do I delete a topic.

You'll probably need a moderator to do it for you but just keep it up there ... keep posting, pick up a few tips and enjoy yourself ... ask all the questions you want and don't get discouraged when one or two assholes waste your time ...

 

[Chi City 81]

OK, I raise the white flag. How do I delete a topic.

You'll probably need a moderator to do it for you but just keep it up there ... keep posting, pick up a few tips and enjoy yourself ... ask all the questions you want and don't get discouraged when one or two assholes waste your time ...

No, there should be a tab on the lower left called, "Remove Topic." Click it.

 

[Write-brained]

Does he have enough posts? I thought you needed a certain number of posts ...

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

No need to delete it.

Again, welcome. Be mellow, observe, and learn about the members before you hop into everything.

And keep checking the job sites, including apse.dallasnews.com

 

[Tom Petty]

Actually Mayfly. . . ..

Your membership designation means you should fetch some beers yourself. Make mine a Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat, please.

Ah yes...the classic "don't have enough posts so call you a newbie" internet hierarchy. Thought that died out with Halo.

go get a god damned beer and quit yer bitchin', newbie.

 

[Tom Petty]

and i really was hoping his first name was creaven.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Then he would be hunting for a job.

"Creaven the Hunter."

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[Tom Petty]

Then he would be hunting for a job.

"Creaven the Hunter."

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lol - actually i was gonna ask if his last name was peters.

 

[2underpar]

everybody gets bashed on here at some point -- even slappy and whitlock. good luck in the job search.

 

[slappy4428]

everybody gets bashed on here at some point -- even slappy and whitlock. good luck in the job search.

HEY!... What did I do this time...

 

[Board Stiff]

My name is Patrick Creaven and I'm the sports editor at the Daily Forty-Niner, the campus newspaper at Long Beach State.

Chatted with a JetBlue ticket agent at the airport once. She was a Long Beach State journalism grad.

 

[Songbird]

The Beach, The Beach, The Beach,
The LONG BEACH!

 

[Mitch21]

yea I wouldnt feel bad you started out better than I did....

 

[Money007]

I hope this doesnt start a trend, turning this site into hotjobs.com for sports journalists. I appreciate the gusto of putting yourself out there, but this really is an industry where you have to go to the job. They won't come to you.

 

[Mayfly]

Very well said.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

And keep checking the job sites, including apse.dallasnews.com

You actually need to do more than just check the job sites. By the time a job gets posted on jjobs or one of the others, there could be 500 resumes on the SE's desk.

That's not saying don't check those sites. Moreso, in addition to checking those sites, you need to network and talk to people

 

[jakewriter82]

Ah yes, networking.

It's much better when the sports editor at the rag where you interned tells you they don't want you rather then hearing it from a sports editor you've never met.


I kid.

Networking is essential.
Now finding good contacts, that's where the fun begins.

 

[Write-brained]

I think y'all scared Mr. Creaven away.

 

[Tom Petty]

I hope this doesnt start a trend, turning this site into hotjobs.com for sports journalists. I appreciate the gusto of putting yourself out there, but this really is an industry where you have to go to the job. They won't come to you.

newbie, what do you know about trends and why do you care?