Burnt Orange Report

I'll never put a deadline on myself again

By Nathan Nance

Guest post by Nate Nance

From time to time I like to tell people about what it is like to work in a journalist's environment. Not only do I spend loads of my free time blogging or finding new things to blog about, but I also work at a newspaper where I regularly have deadlines to get my sports page out. In fact, last night I did some crappy posting just because I needed to rush for an early deadline for the Kid's Kopy inserts we have once a month.

Most people are surprised to find out just uptight a lot of desk people are, and how rampant foul language is in the newsroom. It turns out we are also 6 times more likely to have a heart attack because of deadlines. I thought those chest pains were just really bad Italian food that I eat in hurry to make deadline, but nope.

I just wanted to point that out to some people. I know plenty of people like to call in and complain about things they don't like; just remember it might just have killed us to try a little harder.

Guest post by Nathan Nance. Nate is a sports/news clerk at the Waco Tribune-Herald and writer/editor of Common Sense a Texas-based Democratic Web log. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com