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Old 09-05-2014, 10:54 PM   #1
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Re: Ten Burning Questions for the season.

I should have been a sportswriter.
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Old 09-06-2014, 02:10 AM   #2
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Re: Ten Burning Questions for the season.

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I should have been a sportswriter.
Larry Holder is a very good sportswriter, but he didn't get to where he is now overnight. It's a lot of of late nights, not seeing your family, being on the road, eating a bunch of crap food, having an ass-backwards sleep schedule, covering a lot of BS junior taekwondo tournaments and high school softball games, dealing with a lot of hateful people, and oh yeah, you have to work at a newspaper which is one of the worst fields there is right now.

Writing about sports for a living sounds fun and glamorous, and honestly it does have those moments but they are few and far behind. The truth is it's a damn brutal grind for like 95% of the people who do it. If you're really good (really really good) and stick it out for long enough, then you get the choice gigs like a Larry Holder or Mike Triplett.

Disclaimer: I was a sportswriter for about 15 years. I got out of it for all the reasons above, plus missing about the first three years of my son's life was the tipping point.
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