My story, their words
"I confessed every reservation that I’d kept bottled up inside me. I hated USA TODAY. The prospect of constantly traveling as a beat writer horrified me. I wanted to be able to turn work off when I got home. I didn’t know if the jobs were out there. If they were, I didn’t want go to Alabama, or Wyoming, or Washington and work in a town no one has ever hear of to get them. The pay wasn’t worth it, and the job wasn’t stable."
For the first time this Fall, I finally confessed every doubt I'd be accumulating about making journalism my career.
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It felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
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I'm fortunate that Mark allowed me to vent, and even more fortunate that he told me I wasn't wrong.
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Even then, though, I wanted to understand if other people at the Daily — and other professionals in the field — ever doubted aspects of the profession.
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So I asked each of them. These are just some of the answers.