I met the new VP of my old car club today, and we shot the breeze over cars and Navy stuff for a couple hours well spent in good company!
He's a surface ET, I was a Submariner ET, he's got a 70 Hemi Cuda, and a 70 Dodge truck, I've got a 69 Coronet R/T.
Time flies when you're shooting the breeze about cars and car parts!
Anyway, most workdays I don't have much time to post much, and it's usually due to one thing or another
Congratulations on the new job! (Parallel lifes: I lost my job after seven years in May.) Jesse, you should send your application to online car magazines - and not only in the USA, but anywhere in the English speaking world! You have a fantastic reference - this blog -, you are a great writer, you would make an outstanding news editor. You are living in California, a place with vivid car culture, your articles and news section would be the most entertaining and colorful ever! Basically you should do the same what you do now as a hobby. I was IT journalist / editor for 30+ years, freelancer at first and full time later, you can trust my judgement. ;-)
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Well, the limitless number of wanna be writers, and laid off magazine people, and freelancers that used to be magazine people (Ezra Dyer, Elena Scherr, for examples) after so many magazines went out of business has flooded the online magazines and online car websites with so damn many people, and there simply isn't anyone (in my opinion) who is hiring. The few sites that actually pay a living wage? Have their pick of the best, and so damn many wanna be's bugging them all the time, that I simply have zero chance (another opinion) of getting a job in the car world.
Thank you for the compliment!
Yes, but, California has proven via all the magazines that went out of business, that there simply aren't many people paying to look at anything car related anymore. Guys our age are getting far fewer, and not many will pay for content, and few websites can get advertisers.
I am part of the problem, as I do all this without advertising, and for free, for simply enjoyment of what I do.
There's a LOT of online entertainment competing with video games, social media, news, politics, movies, tv shows, etc... and not enough hours in the day, and so very few guys are interested in any one thing like what I put on my blog.
I don't even get to car events anymore except SEMA... gas costs double what it did 15 years ago when I went to every event south of Ventura... I even went to the hot rod show in Vegas, and the Concours in Phoenix.
But now I just use the internet. I don't even go to cruises anymore.
I would if I could afford it, but putting more miles on my car puts me in the next higher car insurance cost bracket for driving over 10k miles a year.
Tires and batteries cost double too.
Life's just damn difficult.
Jesse, I really don't know what to say... We are living about 6300 miles away from each other, but it is frightening how similar our problems are. I blame the politicians, all of them. Here in Hungary the car press is basically went to the internet. They are free, but full with ads. But at least they are exists and many of them.
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