Over the past couple of weeks....between Meta/FB, CNN, Twitter, the Washington Post....the signs are there that a bunch of journalists, fact-checkers and social media creators....are about to lose their jobs.
The curious thing here....there's no real back-up plan or landscape....where a guy or gal can land, without losing half their level of income.
Adding to this situation....once the cuts occur....is that really the 'end'? Could we reach the end of 2023, and find another 10,000 folks dumped?
I'm reminded of a story of a guy via social media that popped up around five years ago. He'd come out of college with a journalism degree, and for several months....found no one really hyped to pay the level of pay that he expected. He ended up at a small regional TV station...barely at $30k a year. For a year or two, he lingered....then someone came along to suggest he wrote travel pieces for a magazine...mostly under an assumed name, and brought in a couple thousand a year. A dozen years after college, he found his 'position' in the jobs market....mostly as a travel journalist. It wasn't what he dreamed of....but it paid his lifestyle.
Most of these people....from the journalists, to the fact-checkers....will linger around, and eventually realize that their time with Twitter, or CNN, or WaPo.....was just a lucky streak. Accept it, and just move on.
