Thursday, June 29, 2006
Tribunes and Tribulations
The good news: I got a job interview!
The bad news: I didn't get the job.
The good news: The interview was at a newspaper called the Welland Tribune, which gave me a great title for this entry.
The good news: I won't have to travel hours to work and back every day.
The good news: I won't have to write articles on 'cowpat bingo' and other stories I read in recent editions.
The good news: I can still write whatever I want for whoever I like.
The bad news: Okay, maybe not for whoever I like - the Globe and Mail isn't exactly banging down my door - but freelancing does give me a certain kind of freedom and I'm getting lots of work at the moment, so I'm staying positive.
I've been doing a lot with the Hamilton Spectator lately - I was in the paper twice today, and I'll be in there tomorrow too - which has been fun and really varied. It would be nice if this much work kept coming in, but I have lots of other irons in the fire too.
If you want to check out today's articles, you can find them at www.thespec.com (search by date - June 29). More on the other stuff I'm doing when it's actually published!
The bad news: I didn't get the job.
The good news: The interview was at a newspaper called the Welland Tribune, which gave me a great title for this entry.
The good news: I won't have to travel hours to work and back every day.
The good news: I won't have to write articles on 'cowpat bingo' and other stories I read in recent editions.
The good news: I can still write whatever I want for whoever I like.
The bad news: Okay, maybe not for whoever I like - the Globe and Mail isn't exactly banging down my door - but freelancing does give me a certain kind of freedom and I'm getting lots of work at the moment, so I'm staying positive.
I've been doing a lot with the Hamilton Spectator lately - I was in the paper twice today, and I'll be in there tomorrow too - which has been fun and really varied. It would be nice if this much work kept coming in, but I have lots of other irons in the fire too.
If you want to check out today's articles, you can find them at www.thespec.com (search by date - June 29). More on the other stuff I'm doing when it's actually published!
