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>>53603312
(OP) Networking sounds swell, sitting behind monitors watching glowing screens all day doesn't too bad, can someone confirm?

tech journalism

I am a complete philistine when it comes to tech but I get paid to write about it for a living

I'm just here because sometimes /g/ points me in the right direction

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>>53603325
Thanks, but writing isn't exactly my forte, although what is the work load like? Do you have to write a 2000 word article a week or something.

>>53603336
>Do you have to write a 2000 word article a week or something.

I wish mate. Usually between 2000-3000 a day. Back in the day before internet journalism the boomers could get away with such things because they only had a weekly/monthly deadline for print and there were more hands on deck sharing the workload because there was more money it.

Now I've got to do at least 7 articles a day for web AND think about SEO.

Digital fishing is interesting and I've been accused of clickbait. Young, fresh faces like mine go to university to study journalism and we scoff at clickbait for three years, only to find yourself relentlessly doing it in your first job because otherwise, you're not going to get traffic and you will be fired.

I know I'm not exactly selling this very well.

>>53603382
That's okay I hate writing anyway. Are you working from home?

>>53603418
Just today because I'm waiting in for a delivery, but I'm office based.

>>53603323
I'm going for networking, you can get pretty good money if you've got the top-end Cisco qualifications under your belt.
If you can understand shit like UDP and TCP/IP and how routers and switches work etc then I'd say go for it.
While I can do simple batch file stuff, programming is definitely not my strength.

If networking fails then hardware repairs is my back-up or just an IT support role in a small-medium business.