You've done it. You've made it. You've worked your way up the ladder. Not the corporate ladder, or Jacob's ladder, or the chute and ladder, but up to the upper reaches of the journalism community. All the long nights, lost weekends and paltry meals while your friends from college were out partying, making gobs of cash and not having to use cash advances to pay the rent have paid off.
You are a staff writer for a broke alt-weekly.
It's hard to get a job in journalism these days. If you're the SF Weekly, for some reason it seems hard to keep a job in journalism.
COS THEY ADVERTISE ALL THE DAMN TIME FOR A STAFF WRITER
The older posts have expired, but I swear, and some others in the perennial-job-seeker-community will attest, that the SF Weekly has been continuously advertisign for a staff writer since the freaking summer.
What makes this all the more intriguing is the fact that they gots no money. Whether or not the SF Weekly's parent company, Phoenix-based Village Voice Media (now that's an outsourcing) has to pay the full $15 million doesn't really matter. If they appeal, they'll shovel money down the trash-hole of legal fees. If not, they have to cough up millions, millions that do not exist in a newspaper's budget.
They're only looking for an experienced hack, someone with long-form journalism experience (read: no bloggers or daily hacks allowed) and a sense of humor: cos how else can you justify working for someone you know can't pay you?
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