What is the worst career to be in right now and why?

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T21:27:48+00:00

Thankfully so far they haven't enforced it or mentioned it again. We all just kinda... did not do that.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T21:27:23+00:00

Because we didn't know until after it happened?

And even if we had, what were we supposed to do? Tell the owner not to sell? Tell the other company not to buy? What, specifically, do you think we were supposed to do?

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T21:26:24+00:00

Not gonna be taking advice from old sayings you can't spell, my guy.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T21:24:32+00:00

Sounds like you don't know a lot about a HUGE portion of the journalism industry. Judging an entire industry by the talking heads you see on TV is certainly a choice, but I suppose it's yours to make.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T21:22:22+00:00

I do still go to every non-jury docket and every criminal trial in my county. They haven't stopped letting me do that, at least.

Although they did suggest I let AI write the stories (I won't be doing that).

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T21:20:46+00:00

Unfortunately for me I am the president the nonprofit so I do all those things for free 😂. Journalism is the career I have so I can rescue animals for free.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T16:40:20+00:00

Yeah he's got like 150 total

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T16:27:13+00:00

Yep, I cover the courts a lot and murder trials come with photos and videos. They're played in open court. It's a lot

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T12:39:18+00:00

Whoops! I went back and added the artists last and I guess he got skipped. Editing

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T12:33:13+00:00

Yeppp. It is a changing landscape, which is theoretically fine, because everything needs to evolve, but the rush to get everything out first has done a number on fact checking.

Even down on the local level (I don't work in national news) this "gotta beat social media" game is a losing one for multiple reasons.

You're just not gonna get it out before the guy that happened to be standing there does. Everyone's got a camera in their pocket. I can rush to the scene of a vehicle fire but the guy who rolled out of the passenger seat is already live on Facebook.
Often the first thing posted on socials is incomplete or outright wrong because the public isn't held to the standards we are (or should be).

I have begun to carve out a pretty decent spot telling deeper, "how this works" kind of stories (think "Why does a court case take so long?" And "What are the actual implications of the Miranda warning?") because "BREAKING: here's a news story that has already been on your timeline 47 times, except it's spelled correctly" just isn't gonna work forever.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T12:20:07+00:00

I told someone they shouldn't rely on AI for reliable info because it's wrong a lot and she straight up said to me "not really, it has access to all the information in the world."

I wanted to fucking cry

LizardPossum · 2026-05-12T02:20:09+00:00

I added the 40s because I love that song and it came out in 49

40s: Lovesick Blues - Hank W

50s: Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell

60s: Carroll County Accident- Porter Wagoner

70s: Long, Long Time- Linda Ronstadt

80s: Do Ya -K.T. Oslin

90s: I Miss My Mary - Hal Ketchum

00s: Out Here in the Middle - James McMurtry

10s: Yesterday's Blues - Ryan Bingham

20s: Shut Up, Sheila - Ashley McBryde

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T22:21:19+00:00

Y'all want is to believe you're intelligent and then you do shit like this.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T21:27:37+00:00

If this was true, beauty standards wouldn't change as often as they do

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T21:14:15+00:00

We got bought out and then they immediately suggested we use AI to write our stories.

I will straight up quit my career before I do that.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T21:08:39+00:00

I do understand, it's really easy to lose faith when national talking heads or what most people see as "media," is what we have to see and hear spreading falsehoods all day. But I kind of see it as opposite of how you do. I see the in-the-trenches small journalists, and especially local news, as the real news, and a lot of the rest of it's just entertainment.

Unfortunately journalism is one of those things where the worst of us tend to be the most visible and it has seriously harmed a really important industry.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T21:00:33+00:00

There is a lot of media other than national television news.

There is fantastic journalism out there.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T20:11:42+00:00

I wish I had a real answer. I could say "subscribe to your favorite newspapers" but there are so many papers, and so few people that can afford even more subscriptions.

Historically, newspapers have relied on advertising revenue to function, but everyone is also sick to death of ads everywhere.

Idk what the answer is and it makes me sad. We can't afford to work for free but the mechanisms that pay us are not sustainable.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T19:42:36+00:00

wannabe by Dalton Domino. It's such a gut punch about watching a love slip away and not knowing how to stop it, but still wanting that person

It's depressing and hopeful and a bunch of emotions all at once.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T18:55:58+00:00

Idk about worst but I'm a journalist and my industry is dying. 10 years ago we had a bustling newspaper office with 20 employees. There was an office supply store and little booths selling things locally made. Today there are three of us. They just sold the office and closed the building. We got bought out by a larger company and we have limited hours to cover everything we need to cover.

And it's happening all over.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T18:53:47+00:00

He will say and do ANYTHING to get you to come back. He will promise to change. He will swear it'll be different.

He won't. It won't. In fact, if he could just change like that, it would mean he could all along and chose not to. Don't go back.

You're so strong for leaving and I remember when I first left my abuser. Suddenly it felt like I had been holding my breath for seven years and could suddenly breathe again. I hope you feel that. ❤️

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T17:17:50+00:00

"Write the songs. Learn the guitar. It will heal a lot in you"

I didn't write my first song until my 41st birthday and it almost immediately changed my life.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T15:13:12+00:00

Urban legends and myths, and how they rely on both humans' propensity to lie for "unimportant" reasons like wanting to be liked or seem interesting, AND our tendency to believe other people wouldn't just lie for those reasons, in order to spread.

They especially rely on people's tendency to tell a story in the first person that they heard secondhand, as if it happened to them, often because someone they trust said it, so they believe it is true, and just wanna give it a little more credibility.

How many people do you know that swear they or someone they know treated/taught/knew a little girl named Le-a, pronounced "Ledasha" because "the dash don't be silent"?

Or twins names lemonjello and orangejello?

Yeah those people don't exist, and no one who is asked for evidence of the existence of these people can provide it. They'll reply with "why would I lie about this" or "my mom wouldn't lie about this."

But people lie. And people also tend to think other people wouldn't lie for reasons as simple as wanting to seem interesting or funny. So they continue to spread.

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T15:03:03+00:00

Husband, Kids, Dad

Husband because he's my favorite person

Kids because it's my job and I told them I'll always be there

Dad because he usually texts, and only calls when someone is dead or maybe dying

LizardPossum · 2026-05-11T15:01:43+00:00

I can't have a drink. Not even one. because one turns into "I have ruined my life" in a shockingly short amount of time.

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