Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A pretty dern good week
Ok, so to fill everybody in ... Since March I've been filling out job applications for design/copy editing jobs in Cape Girardeau and St. Joseph. I also found out just recently that there was a job in Staunton, Va.
That was much shorter than it should have been, in any case, here goes, bullets:
— I found out about this job a few weeks ago
— I applied
— I talked to the desk editor a couple weeks ago and talked to the executive editor last week
— He put everything together regarding the flight and the car to get there (St. Louis -> Washington Dulles) for this past weekend so I could get the interview finished before the big family trip coming up to Alaska for which I leave Thursday morning (oy!)
— On Friday I get an interview pulled together for another job for this Wednesday, i.e., hours before leaving for Alaska and requiring me to leave work three hours early that day before my 10-day vacation
— I get the Staunton job at the end of the interview (very much a shock and very much a happy one)
— I plan on going to the other job interview tomorrow and plan on getting enough information there to compare that job to the one I've already been offered. At the end of which I plan on making a decision, getting in a car, driving to St. Louis, going to bed, sleeping (oh God yes, and something I may not be doing much of or at all tonight), waking up at the buttcrack of dawn, going to an airport, waiting, boarding a plane, flying across two countries and reading Harry Potter all the way (for the first time since it came out very early SATURDAY) to Alaska.
It is a good week, and it's nice to be deciding when both decisions are good news. On the one hand, MU is close to Lebanon, which is a cheaper drive. I also know people in CoMo and I'd be working for the only university I've ever been a part of doing design, writing and editing work. CoMo is also very familiar and a town I like already.
On the other hand, I started this search looking for newspaper design/copy editing work and I have right now a job that's mine to turn down to do just that in a very large company (Gannett) which will allow me to move on to other bigger papers if I succeed in Staunton. The CoMo job is also, as I understand it, not without its inherent merits, but it is broader, and, as it's been described to me, it doesn't allow an awful lot of creativity even though I would be able to learn more about designing web pages.
Though Staunton seems very willing to train its staff in technology as well. Staunton also has the disadvantage of Quark 6, which feels like pushing around boulders compared to the freeway speed of InDesign, though they are planning on expanding into InDesign next year. In short, I just don't know. And I plan on telling Staunton my decision because I'd hate to lose that opportunity.
Aw hell, who knows?
That was much shorter than it should have been, in any case, here goes, bullets:
— I found out about this job a few weeks ago
— I applied
— I talked to the desk editor a couple weeks ago and talked to the executive editor last week
— He put everything together regarding the flight and the car to get there (St. Louis -> Washington Dulles) for this past weekend so I could get the interview finished before the big family trip coming up to Alaska for which I leave Thursday morning (oy!)
— On Friday I get an interview pulled together for another job for this Wednesday, i.e., hours before leaving for Alaska and requiring me to leave work three hours early that day before my 10-day vacation
— I get the Staunton job at the end of the interview (very much a shock and very much a happy one)
— I plan on going to the other job interview tomorrow and plan on getting enough information there to compare that job to the one I've already been offered. At the end of which I plan on making a decision, getting in a car, driving to St. Louis, going to bed, sleeping (oh God yes, and something I may not be doing much of or at all tonight), waking up at the buttcrack of dawn, going to an airport, waiting, boarding a plane, flying across two countries and reading Harry Potter all the way (for the first time since it came out very early SATURDAY) to Alaska.
It is a good week, and it's nice to be deciding when both decisions are good news. On the one hand, MU is close to Lebanon, which is a cheaper drive. I also know people in CoMo and I'd be working for the only university I've ever been a part of doing design, writing and editing work. CoMo is also very familiar and a town I like already.
On the other hand, I started this search looking for newspaper design/copy editing work and I have right now a job that's mine to turn down to do just that in a very large company (Gannett) which will allow me to move on to other bigger papers if I succeed in Staunton. The CoMo job is also, as I understand it, not without its inherent merits, but it is broader, and, as it's been described to me, it doesn't allow an awful lot of creativity even though I would be able to learn more about designing web pages.
Though Staunton seems very willing to train its staff in technology as well. Staunton also has the disadvantage of Quark 6, which feels like pushing around boulders compared to the freeway speed of InDesign, though they are planning on expanding into InDesign next year. In short, I just don't know. And I plan on telling Staunton my decision because I'd hate to lose that opportunity.
Aw hell, who knows?
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