Oh Meryl....

Thank you so much for your insight! I really do appreciate it. I just sometimes feel like I’m flying a little blind when it comes to career choices like journalism versus other media fields, so it’s so helpful when someone who has been there can tell me about their experiences!

Thank you! One last question, do you know anyone who has gone back to journalism after moving to marketing or PR? Or is it pretty much a one way road in your experience?

Not sure if this counts as worse, but I was in a wedding once where the bride stopped the dance and the garter putting on thing after the bouquet and garter were caught because the guy who caught the garter was a total creep and the girl who caught the bouquet was like 9 years old.

Thanks so much for responding! I’m only a few years out of college and so far, no one I went to j school with who has worked for a daily has left the newspaper industry to go elsewhere yet, so I don’t have anyone’s brain to really pick. I’ve been working for a daily since a few days after graduating college (I got…

Unrelated to the issue at hand, but as a current journalist with PR/Marketing kind of on the back burner career wise should I want to move back home or want something that has less crazy hours and better pay if I decide to do that whole kid thing, how do you like doing marketing? And do you have regrets about leaving…

I know he’s picking it up from the people he works with. My parents are both very feminist and called either one of us out when we were kids if we picked up sexist slang or something at school. My dad once threatened to pull over and make my brother walk 10 miles home because he kept using gay as an insult. He just…

My kid brother is this hulking military guy, drives a lifted pick up truck, listens to bro country music and owned a Harley for a while. Real man’s man. I was talking with him one day and he said he told his coworker to grow up and stop acting like a girl and I asked him “Yeah, but what, exactly, is wrong with being a…

One restaurant I worked in, literally all the FOH staff was fucking at least one other person on FOH. No one was actually dating someone on FOH though so drama was shockingly low. Just a lot of obvious glances and a few “I don’t want to roll my silverware, so and so got off a few hours ago and promised me beer and…

I’ll give the GOP this much, they’re fucking brilliant. They’ve turned an entire generation of voters into single issue voters: abortion. They look at these people, who claim to be Christian, and tell them “The fact that we blatantly hate people not like us, the fact that we push to keep the poor poor and to cut…

I have tiny baby hands and the 5 works so well proportionally, it’s insane. I’m finally upgrading to the 6s soon and I’m so scared that I’m just going to be dropping the damn thing constantly because it looks like a 9 year old is trying to use it.

The meatballs lady might be a moron, but it seems like every time my husband and I go out and we have a male server (even though we hold hands over the table or sit on the same side of the booth and have matching wedding bands on) we always get asked “So are you together or separate?” when it comes time for the bill.

Genuinely wondering if the timing of these two things is related or just coincidental.

Seriously. I was in a psych ward for a week when killing myself seemed like a really fabulous choice to make and the amount of crap they confiscate from you is nuts. They took a sweatshirt away from me because there was a draw string at the hood. I couldn’t have toothpaste without supervision. If they’re going to use…

Does... does this moron think that someone who owns clothes and also sells clothes can’t be robbed? Does she think someone selling a car can’t be carjacked? I... I don’t... ok. Sure lady. You and holier than thou bitchiness can fuck right off into the sun. Non-assholes on planet earth will continue to treat people…

I’m on the arm implant form of birth control and it’s the greatest invention in the history of man, I swear to shit. Almost a year on and I have had 0 periods. I thought I would be paranoid (as someone whose had pregnancy scares and the like in the past) without them but knowing how effective the method is, it doesn’t…

Funny thing about fraternities and sororities, as soon as there is a single male member, it’s a fraternity. I was in a co-ed (non-greek) service fraternity in college. My chapter was mostly women (and I believe nationally is more women than men now, but I’m definitely not sure on that) and started as a men’s only…

I’ve been reading this book and it’s truly phenomenal but I will say, the thing that bothered me most, even beyond the cells being taken without her permission (which is pretty fucking bad, don’t get me wrong) is that this poor woman had to travel further from her home because she had to go to the hospital that would…

I have to actively work to not fight with idiots on fb constantly because if I responded to all of this shit, all the anti-choice shit, all the “#alllivesmatter” shit, all the “respect police officers” shit, all I would be doing with my life is fighting with morons on the internet. That being said, I’m an adult with a…

The guy on the left who looks like a bearded toddler about to go on an Easter egg hunt almost made me spray water out of my nose at my desk I laughed so hard. Thank you for this. Thank you so so much.