Ninety percent of my life has been spent in St. Louis, Missouri. A majority of it around the south side. In my ever failing quest to find a writing job, or at least a decent job in general, my better half and I have decided that when she is finished with school we would like to high tail it out of here to greener pastures.
Last night, we (my fiance and confidant) decided the next city we should visit in hopes of relocating will be Tampa, Florida. Tampa's cost of living according to recent data is about the same as St. Louis. I have family in the area too, but they will not be the sole or deciding reason for us to move there.
Her chosen profession, or should I say what she will finish school with in May, is psychiatric nursing. Mine is a little more complicated, if you believe psychiatric nursing is easy. Writing and journalism. The past year I have not been up to my full potential at my local university because of a chronic condition. My writing and cognitive abilities suffered and, thus, my academic career did as well.
Now, I am currently on different and better medications that help me cognitively and allow me to be much more motivated than I had been the past year or so. However, my search for freelance or temporary writing jobs in St. Louis city and county have come up dry. No e-mails or letters have been returned even though my portfolio of sports journalism and investigative journalism is more than above par (I say this with modesty and humility because everyone I know says my talent for writing exceeds that of my peers).
All in all, I'm hoping that those of you who are looking for a talented and highly motivated reporter and/or sports journalist who can also double as investigative reporter, please leave me a comment on this blog.
This blog will mostly be my opinion on national news and sports events. Therefore, this type of post will mostly be atypical.
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