09-06-2014, 02:10 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 2,254
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Re: Ten Burning Questions for the season.
Originally Posted by saintfan
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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