I GOT A JOB!!!

I am so happy for you...((((((((((((candybear)))))))))))))

What FABULOUS news, g/f!!!! I am so proud of you and excited for you!!!!!!

When it rains, it pours ...

Over the weekend, I've received three more job offers! Two of them are in Wisconsin, and one is a daily!

ACK! Somebody tell me what to do! The city planner in the community I used to cover accepted a job in another town, then turned around less than a week later and told them he changed his mind and was going to ANOTHER town! I thought that was ridiculously tacky -- but can I pass up the chance to go home?? (or at least a lot closer to it??)

Eeeeek. I'm taking recommendations for things to consider in making a decision!

Candy

Candy, that's great! Hard to choose though. What does your heart tell you?

****Congrats Candybear****

for all the wonderful opportunities coming your way!!!

Eva

Although I congratulated her in private, I thought she should also get a public kudos from me!! There is no one more deserving of a great position like this than candy.

Congratulations and good luck on the new job!

Best,
John

Doc John,

I am in total agreement!!!!

EJ

Thanks, Doc! You're the best!

Since we're doing public kudos, though, let me tell everyone how you have given me stuff to do around PC that has kept me afloat these last months in more ways than one. Thanks for believing in me.



Candy

That's fantastic news!!!!

All the best - I'm sure you will keep us updated

Good luck on your new job... this is just the greatest news..... giant congrats.......is it party time??? smile

(((((((((EJ)))))))))

(((((((((((dsf))))))))))

(((((((((radio_flyer))))))))

thank you! It's definitely party time!

Love, Candy

well I will bring the cake... yummmm cake

woooo hooo i would get up and dance for you but i cant my leg is still sore!!! so i will wiggle in my chair....lol
doing the " i got a job" dnace for candybear!!!!!

woo hoo wtg candybear, congrats

congrats!!! I know you will be so happy to get out of there!! woo hoo!!

Oy.

I don't know what else to say. I'm ridiculously conflicted.

I have a job in hand, which I am supposed to start Monday, at a weekly in Minneapolis. But today I drove 3 hours to western Wisconsin to talk to some people at a daily paper.

I knew things were going to go downhill when it turned out that I knew the editor-in-chief's brother. Small world, Wisconsin journalism.

So The Big Boss told me a little about the place, asked a few Journalism 101 questions that I would have been embarrassed if one of my 18-year-old students couldn't have answered, much less me, and passed me off to the city editor and his underling.

It didn't seem to bother City 1 and City 2 that I have virtually no experience in either area I'll be expected to cover. Exactly ONCE I've had to write a story off a criminal complaint, but that seemed to be enough for them. (They want me to do courts and education. Education I can handle.)

I think I did a good job of selling myself, I just don't know if I
want the job.

Eau Claire is 2/3 the size of the town I'm stuck in now, and you all know how much I love it here. (NOT.) I called a friend when I pulled into the parking lot, after having gotten briefly lost, and told her I didn't think I could live there, and I'm not sure I can. It's not even a CUTE small town. It just didn't feel good to me. I hate it here so bad because for the last 17 years I have lived in close proximity to actual cities -- like, populations in the hundreds of thousands. Rochester (where I'm stuck now) is 93,000, and the biggest city in southeastern Minnesota. Eau Claire is 63,000, and the biggest city in western Wisconsin. It's 4 hours from Milwaukee, where my heart and all my friends are.

I didn't have the heart to check out Chippewa Falls, which is 20
minutes or so away, and where I would be based out of. CF has a
whopping 13,000 people and its biggest claims to fame are Cray
supercomputers (Mr. Cray was from there and started the company there)
and Leinenkugel's beer. Even though it is teeny-tiny, it has its own
daily newspaper, so I would be in head-to-head competition with those
reporters. I have never had to compete with anyone before.

We didn't really talk money, so I've no idea what they might offer.

My sister is already making noises about not "allowing" me to take it if they don't give me a certain amount. I am trying hard to figure out
how the hell it is HER decision to run MY life. I am also trying hard
to figure out why she will let me accept $13 an hour in a big city but
not more than that in a small town where the housing is insanely cheap.

They asked me what my career goal was. I said, "to work for a daily."
Which is true. And I have to start somewhere, because I don't have the
internships or experience at big papers that will get me into one
right away. But I'm questioning if that's what I really want after
all. I mean, either I stay where I'm comfortable in a job I know and
somewhere I already know people, or I move to a dinky town where I know no one, and basically start over. I think I am too old to start over. What do you think? I need opinions and help. At the very least I need a pep talk!

Candy

Candy, your heart knows. Follow it.