It finally happened!

So long and short of it, but today was exactly a year since I was on a plane because of my rejected FLR(M).

And today, I got my contract to start my full-time journo job, and I basically got home and broke down crying cause this has been a long process of grinding away with temp and contract jobs.

I guess this is more a way for me to reassure anyone on this part of the forum that it does happen. You will get a job or THE job. It literally just takes persistence.

In my case, five months of non-stop grinding, throwing my CV at anyone who looked like they might need help and taking loads of gig/temp/contract/(paid/unpaid)work experiences.

You did it!!! Congratulations solaire!  well done for never giving up!

WAAAAAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Congratulations!!!

That's great! What kind of journalism?  I've always wanted to be involved with journalism and even worked on a newspaper a long time ago.

I've got a buddy who works with the group that exposed the Panama and paradise papers.  He's a real hero.

That's great! What kind of journalism?  I've always wanted to be involved with journalism and even worked on a newspaper a long time ago.

I've got a buddy who works with the group that exposed the Panama and paradise papers.  He's a real hero.

Nothing as glamorous as that I'm afraid. I'm doing business-to-business work with a magazine and their website. But I get to basically be as creative and have the opportunity to work with the other magazines there as well. 

Dude I can't even imagine how cool that is. I only got that I went to high school with a guy who won a gold medal. Didn't know him, but I went to school with him

Nothing as glamorous as that I'm afraid. I'm doing business-to-business work with a magazine and their website. But I get to basically be as creative and have the opportunity to work with the other magazines there as well. 

Dude I can't even imagine how cool that is. I only got that I went to high school with a guy who won a gold medal. Didn't know him, but I went to school with him

To be honest I think you could probably work for that group as well, I think it's a freebie sort of thing.  Not sure how he actually makes money.  I could be wrong.

To be honest I think you could probably work for that group as well, I think it's a freebie sort of thing.  Not sure how he actually makes money.  I could be wrong.

secretly, he's a spy...

That's funny, I've got another friend who's a TV journalist and I used to think it was likely that he works for an intelligence agency. Then I hung out with some more and I'm not so convinced now.