23 Problems Only Journalists Will Understand
An article we can all relate to.
It's been said that bad things don't happen to writers; it's all just used as material. Whoever said that had obviously never spent a day in the life of a journalist. One of the first things we learn when we hoist ourselves into the newsroom is to swallow our feelings. Every word you throw out there is judged: first by the editor, and then everyone else in the world. That's one pretty big stage. There's the things you were never taught in university: like the torture of breaking news coming in the moment you're about to go for coffee, or public meetings running the same length of time as a day on Mercury. Working set "hours" is now a fictional concept, and your wages stretch just enough to survive on ramen noodles and wine. Being a journo is wonderful though, there's no doubt about that. We can mask our innate nosiness under a veil of professionalism whilst getting enough free stuff to appear on Channel 4's "Hoarder Next Door" and meet some of the most weird and wonderful creatures to walk this Earth along the way. Indeed, many of them appear to have stepped straight out the Star Wars cantina, but that's all part of the beauty. The journalist comes in many forms. Behind every newspaper headline, every magazine feature and the sea of articles you browse online everyday there's a tide of daily struggles faced by the common wordsmith. Here's just a few of them...