the job hunt begins

As I said in my previous post, there are potential open positions at the Sun-Times.  But even though there may be those, I of course have started applying for jobs.

Now when I graduated from Missouri in 2008, the plan was for me to get a job right away and then if need be go to school.  Sadly, I couldn’t get a job and went with Plan B.  Now granted, Columbia has gotten me the Sun-Times gig and has taught me a new bunch of stuff, I often wonder what it would have been like if I had gotten a job right away, like the majority of my friends did.

So lately, I’ve started applying for jobs.  I thought that Columbia would be my last stop for schooling, but this is turning out to not be the case.  Some of the jobs I am applying for are GA spots at schools.  I would like to be a Sports Information Director at a university and they say the best way is to start out as an intern or a GA.  In the past week, I’ve applied to THREE jobs ALREADY!  One has been to be a GA in the Illinois State Sports Information office, while the others have been a mendia relations internship with the Cubs and a job to be a beat writer for a MLB team for mlb.com.  In the near future, I am going to be applying for the internship at Florida’s SID office, which I hear is one of the best internships b/c they teach you alot there.  We’ll see!

Turnover in the Preps section

Lately, there has been quite the amount of turnover in the Preps section of the Sun-Times.  The main Preps editor is moving on to do more general assignment/Northwestern beat writer stuff.  Along with him, one of the younger guys in charge is moving to become more involved with covering the Hawks.  All of this hopefully means more available jobs, b/c there are at least five of us that are dying to get one.  The only problem is that even the ppl leaving don’t know if there will be any open.  I sure hope so, because if there is anything that I wanna do it’s 1a. newspaper writing and 1b. sports information

age for ppl to be working at a newspaper

So I may have mentioned this before, I don’t remember, but we at the Sun-Times have a new member, a high schooler.  Now I know everyone says well you work in the high school section who cares…Well lemme tell you.  I do!  When I was a high schooler, there was no way that I would have gotten a spot to work at the Sun-Times.  I mean, hell, I couldn’t even get it while in college!  I think you need to be college age at the earliest, because this kid is so clueless it is frustrating.  What do you think?

bball season has STARTED!

Well ladies and gentleman, the basketball season has been upon us for a couple weeks now and no major surprises have occurred, well maybe a couple but nothing major.  I got to cover my first tournament game for the Sun-Times, so that was really cool.  I got to see Mount Carmel beat Zion-Benton in a game that was supposed to be the marque game of the Lane tournament but didn’t end up that way.  Both superstars Tracy Abrams and Lenzelle Smith, were out for their respective teams so it turned out to be a so-so game.  Oh well, it was a HUGE weekend for me, as I got to cover a tournament AND get a feature published in the paper. One which I was told was the talk of the State Finals!