I'm doing freelance reporting for my hometown's weekly paper, the Katahdin Times. "Freelance", for those of you not familiar with news-speak (which is not quite the same thing as newspeak), means I'm not actually an employee of the paper, which is why I say it's "sort of" a job. I go into the office (or call), they give me assignments, I do them, I get paid. Or they don't and I don't. But it's been presented as a sort of trial, which I can live with - sort of like temp-to-permanent work in tech fields. (Yes, I acknowledge that, much like some temp-to-perm offers in tech fields, it could just be a giant stringalong.)

It's an interesting experience being a reporter, though of course the Times, serving as it does a cluster of three towns the largest of which barely tops 5,000 in population, isn't exactly the New York Post (or even the Worcester Telegram & Gazette). Bugger-all happens here - but at this early stage, and after so long without work of any kind, even covering bugger-all has a strange sort of thrill to it.

So that's what I've been doing with my afternoons lately, in case you might be wondering.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
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