{"id":599,"date":"2004-03-04T07:48:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=599"},"modified":"2004-03-04T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:48:39","slug":"if-your-job-sucks-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/if-your-job-sucks-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"If your job sucks, quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what<a href=\"http:\/\/notes-to-self.com\/archives\/000985.html\"> Mme. Paquin did. <\/a> What was supposed to be 20 hours a week picking up some extra dough on some paper&#8217;s copy desk turned into a migraine-inducing trainwreck.  She stuck it out for most of a year, which sounds like far more than her employer deserved.<br \/>\n<P>Another reminder that a lot of us don&#8217;t have cushy jobs at metro dailies with union-mandated 37.5-hour workweeks, four weeks of paid vacation, healthcare and pensions mostly paid for, etc.  For lots of us it&#8217;s 50-hour weeks, 30 stories a night, idiot chain-mail managers, crappy-to-nonexistent benefits and paychecks a schoolteacher would turn down. (Tim Porter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajr.org\/Article.asp?id=2796\">wrote a great article<\/a> about working for squat in small markets.)  Sure, it makes you stronger if it doesn&#8217;t kill you, and it provides healthy perspective for when you finally get a job that doesn&#8217;t suck the life out of  you. That&#8217;s the upside. The downside is being pushed to the breaking point for months or years. If you&#8217;re in one of those situations now, the best  thing you can do for everybody involved is quit. Someday you&#8217;re going to be on your deathbed, and to paraphrase the cliche: you&#8217;re not going to be wishing you&#8217;d put up with more newsroom bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Mme. Paquin did. What was supposed to be 20 hours a week picking up some extra dough on some paper&#8217;s copy desk turned into a migraine-inducing trainwreck. She stuck it out for most of a year, which sounds&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/if-your-job-sucks-quit\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}