Comments on: Five reasons I should be professionally scared, but am (usually) not

By: A new job: Media director for nonprofit Back on My Feet « Christopher Wink

A new job: Media director for nonprofit Back on My Feet « Christopher Wink — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:33:17 +0000

[...] I’ve spent the last year of my life freelancing, by some accounts, at perhaps the worst time to do so in my life and arguably the worst time in the history of journalism. [...]

By: How some established journalists see the rest of us « Christopher Wink

How some established journalists see the rest of us « Christopher Wink — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:28:19 +0000

[...] But I can’t help but think what’s happened since, say, 2007 or even later, is something bigger that is changing the value of a lot of once rock solid professional advice for young and otherwise aspiring journalists, and making it awfully hard out there. [...]

By: Christopher Wink

Christopher Wink — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:51:44 +0000

I can agree with the sentiment of fear. ..Of walking into a world where your once stable industry fell off a cliff. But all I can figure is if we keep making the simple, sensible obvious choices of development, it’s going to come back around. It’s too important to fail, right? We have to create our own jobs, as daunting and frustrating as that is.

By: Megan Taylor

Megan Taylor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:50:35 +0000

I am scared.
The biggest problem, for me, is sending out hundreds of resumes, going to interviews, networking, looking for ways to do what I love…and coming up empty.
But, I also know that I have the skills and determination to get somewhere…eventually.