✍️✍️ Jobs Update ✍️✍️ — August 1
Being more deliberate with your life and work, plus new openings at Chicago Reader, Voice of San Diego, BET Network, Capital FM, Discovery Channel, ESPN, Paramount, Showtime and USA Today
Pinch and a punch, happy first of the month! Hope we all managed to have a good July and are ready for the last of meteorological summer.
I always have extra bounce when one month ends and another begins. It’s similar to why Monday is my favorite day of the week. Come Monday morning, I’ve hopefully had an enjoyable work-free weekend, and now have a clean slate to cross off whatever I need to accomplish over the next few days.
A new month, however, is different because it’s a chance for a more macro-level evaluation of everything I did over the past ~30 days, followed by the excitement at the opportunity to move myself and ITN forward.
Monday hasn’t always been my favorite though. Until recently, it was the day I dreaded most, because of the fear of opening my inbox to learn I’d been fired during my whole ordeal at the Wall Street Journal. Back then my favorite day was undoubtedly Friday — 6pm to be exact — as it meant I could try and separate everything I was dealing with at the time. It also meant that I’d made it to Daniel’s Friday Night Wings — an exclusive club consisting of me buying myself a bucket load of buffalo chicken wings and watching Suits to forget about all of my problems.
These days I don’t fight the Sunday Scaries too often. Partly because the only deadlines I have are ones I set for myself. But also because I’ve made a huge push to be more deliberate with everything I do.
How often do we have the right intention by making a list of all the tasks that need completing in a given day or week, but then failing to do everything. No matter our productivity, we’d ultimately feel as though we failed, because there were still items on our list that hadn’t been crossed off.
Which is where the deliberateness comes in. With the “you can do anything, but you can’t do everything” mantra in mind, I’m finally giving myself the appropriate amount of time to complete a fraction of the number of tasks I used to set for myself. The intention is of course to produce better quality, but more underrated is that it’s cut the volume of anxiety and self-dread that stayed with me wherever I went and whatever I did.
So on that note, I’m going to call it a day here and go and do nothing for a few hours.
Be sure to check out Friday’s newsletter with hundreds of jobs that are closing in the next few days including at the likes of the Associated Press, BBC, Human Rights Watch, NPR and Smithsonian Magazine. We also featured some essential summer reading by our friends at the Reuters Institute, and the best data visualizations from the recent heatwaves from the folks at Datawrapper.
Check out all of our housekeeping up at the top, and our thought of the day, new and featured openings below. Speak to you again on Friday! 👋
Thought of the Day 🤔
“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.” — Oscar Wilde
Job Corner
✍️ Want to have a job featured? Fill out this form and we’ll help you out ✍️
🚨 Featured Postings 🚨
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Voice of San Diego
Location: San Diego
Salary: Minimum $60,000. Compensation includes
health, life, and disability insurance plus a 401k savings plan and company match.
Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in related degree or experience producing multimedia at a news organization.
Experience producing work for digital platforms in a fast paced, daily newsroom.
Deadline: August 12
Chicago Reader
Location: Chicago
Salary: $75,000-$85,000
Requirements: Remote-work position, but living in the Chicago area and attendance at in-person meetings is required
Deadline: Rolling
Location: Chicago
Salary: $45,000-$50,000
Requirements: At least two years of relevant work experience
Deadline: Rolling
Preview of New Listings 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦
