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[rmmeyers05]

it's noon - i'm lying on my couch and it's hot because i guess it's already summer in east texas. i'm feeling very disenchanted with just about everything. i think i'm deteriorating as a writer. i've been reading my stuff and it's shit. i'm so tired of comparing myself to other people in the newsroom. i truly feel like this is a cutthroat business

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[deviltopay]

I know how you feel, which is why I'm getting out of the business. There's way more money in way better jobs. Jobs where you can work your ass off and actually see the impact of your efforts.

You're too smart a girl to be this down on yourself.

To me, being a reporter is like living in some weird bizarro universe where you can stop eating and start exercising 24/7 and still get fatter by the day. Input in journalism has very little effect on output. Conventionally, crap in = crap out. In journalism, crap AND gold in = crap out.

Now that I've traipsed off to the public relations land of milk and honey, I imagine I'll be a much saner person. Getting nights and weekends off and actually being able to watch sports -- ironically something I did very little of as a sports writer -- will have a much greater impact on my mental state than any satisfying story assignment or what have you.

Sort shit out. Be online more.

[rmmeyers05]

thanks, shawn, for your off-brand of encouragement. thanks why i like you. you say all the right things in a really weird way. when do you start your new job?

[deviltopay]

I'm doing both jobs (SHHHHH!!!) all next week. I'm tempering myself.

That's a cooking term. I don't watch much sports but I watch a ton of Food TV.