I work super early mornings hours Monday thru Friday at a local news station helping produce the news. Been doing it for about a year.
Usually I'm running cameras or the telepromtper. It's been a cool job, and some of the people I work with I get along well with and I felt blessed at first to be working a media position because those are rare where I live.
I've been working 3 am to 1 pm for a year in December. I have a split shift and don't get paid from 9am to 11:30am.
So essentially I lose 2 and half hours of pay every day just because we aren't producing any news then. And I have no benefits. I was told “there are no raises for production, your department is capped.” Yet. Someone in production makes more than I do.
I have to watch the news 6 hours a day because of my job and I'm losing it. I am seriously thinking I have media overload/burnout and my mental health has suffered.
I'm more angry lately, tired, and I used to not get political but now I'm upset a lot because I have to watch politicsl content that upsets me. Some of the local stories are just sad and I feel for people too much.
Are the cons outweighing the pros of this job? The pros are it's a “cool” position people wanna hear me talk about and I have money coming in every month despite not having a degree. I'm just so tired.