Im a lumberjack and im not ok2/11/2024 ![]() 199 newspaper reporter.ĭavid Taffet is a staff writer at Dallas Voice. He wanted something better for his family and that’s what he got. He got his wife and two daughters to New York in 1905 and he arrived a year later. Apparently he did a very good job, because when I visited Oradea in 1990, soon after the communist government fell, there wasn’t a tree in sight. After one of his bad years, he said the next good year he’d use the money to get his family to America. The story is, he had good years and bad years. It’s what my great-grandfather, David Fisher for whom I’m named, did in Nagy Varad, Hungary (now known as Oradea, Romania). ![]() ![]() As far as I’m concerned, their bad move wasn’t the business they chose, but their decision to live in Mississippi.Īnd then there’s lumberjack. The Orkins (you’ve seen their pest control trucks) are my cousins. It’s how he was able to teach them without judging them, trying to help them make something of themselves when they got out.Īt No. He wasn’t a corrections officer, but he worked with inmates in prison for … well, he said he never asked what any of them did. My father’s last job before he retired was teaching at Sing Sing. Wait, corrections officer? OK, so here’s where I have to explain apparently bad career moves that run in my family. Next worse comes firefighter, corrections officer and roofer. On the other hand, they get city benefits and can retire a hell of a lot earlier than I ever will. Going from reporter to garbage collector is taking several steps up? Understand, I respect what they do, but they’re out all day in sweltering heat, rainstorms and snow. Then taxi driver, broadcaster and head cook. On the down side, just ahead of newspaper reporter is enlisted military personnel. Software engineer, computer systems analyst, occupational therapist and speech pathologist round out the top 10. Huh? Why bother learning to inflict pain in dental school when you can scrape plaque all day? Maybe the average salary three times mine is what keeps them from killing themselves.ĭental hygienist is No. 3 and 4 are statistician and then actuary. I wonder if the irony that some tenured university professors teach journalism knocked this job out of the top spot. I’m sure you love your profession as much as I love mine.) Obviously, boredom is not taken into account. And I love the way that pisses other people off. I guess I’m not doing my job right, because I never stress about anything. Also the stress level which is ranked as total stress. What brings down the career of journalist is negative growth in the industry (down 13 percent), chance for a raise and average salary. The website used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compile its rankings. PAUL BUNYAN | Actual photo of my great-grandfather David Fisher, from whom I get my rugged good looks.Īccording to CareerCast, out of 200 jobs, newspaper reporter ranks 199, just ahead of lumberjack at 200.
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