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HAMber is trying for it
« on: October 25, 2014, 08:35:58 PM »
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YUP! I'm trying for it!

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11741302 to see what I am talking about! {{{{{VIBES}}}}} PLEASE!

What is at HAMber's link?  Let's see:

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alt-weekly in Tucson Hiring a Staff Writer

Hey, We're Hiring a Staff Writer!

The Tucson Weekly is hiring a staff writer and GOSH THAT COULD BE YOU. Basically, we need someone who can contribute content to the Weekly, print and online, across the wide variety of subject matter we cover here. Plus, we need someone who isn't boring, who gets alt-weekly style. Someone who can write a well-researched cover story and a clever blog post about a YouTube video. We just want it all, is that too much to ask?

Read over the qualifications below and if you think you're up for the challenge, send me (email address at link) a cover letter, your resume, and three clips of your previously published work.

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1. I am so on this!

going to link NOW! Thanks Kali!

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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2014, 08:41:15 PM »
Whew! She's in Tucson.

I got a call last night at 11:37 Naturally, I was asleep. The message on the answering machine was a computer voice saying something along the lines of: You have received a landline text message from 918-206-1082.

When I looked up the area code it said it included Tulsa (OK). I thought that was where Amber was and that she was contacting me for a fictional spirit-guide consultation. Glad I was mistaken.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2014, 08:43:39 PM »
Um, yeah.  Alt-media pays nothing, repeat NOTHING!  They rely on a bare-bones staff & derive all revenue from ads that make Craig's List personals cringe.

This has success written all over it... :whatever: :popcorn:
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2014, 08:44:19 PM »
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YUP! I'm trying for it!

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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2014, 08:44:44 PM »
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2014, 08:45:08 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 25, 2014, 08:43:39 PM
Um, yeah.  Alt-media pays nothing, repeat NOTHING!  They rely on a bare-bones staff & derive all revenue from ads that make Craig's List personals cringe.
Don't talk about nadin like that.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2014, 08:45:48 PM »
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think she has any of the minimum requirements.

Does she have a Bachelor in anything?
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2014, 08:46:49 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on October 25, 2014, 08:45:08 PM
Don't talk about nadin like that.

That's an idea for her. She could get a job at Reporting San Diego. I'm sure a growing, hard-hitting news site like RSD could use someone like LFR.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2014, 08:47:23 PM »
Quote from: EagleKeeper on October 25, 2014, 08:45:48 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think she has any of the minimum requirements.

Does she have a Bachelor in anything?

Wasn't Chief Running Fast a bachelor?
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2014, 08:49:05 PM »
Quote from: FlippyDoo on October 25, 2014, 08:47:23 PM
Wasn't Chief Running Fast a bachelor?

Beat me to it, was just gonna post that Flippy!  :rotf: :cheersmate:
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2014, 08:49:14 PM »
Quote from: FlippyDoo on October 25, 2014, 08:46:49 PM
That's an idea for her. She could get a job at Reporting San Diego. I'm sure a growing, hard-hitting news site like RSD could use someone like LFR.

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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2014, 08:50:24 PM »
I suspect this might be the last we hear of any of this nonsense.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2014, 08:50:43 PM »
Quote from: EagleKeeper on October 25, 2014, 08:45:48 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think she has any of the minimum requirements.

Does she have a Bachelor in anything?

Allegedly, she has a Bachelor's in Communications. 

As far as the requirement of demonstrative reporting and writing proficiency examples, well, we've got plenty of HAMber's material right here in the DUmpster. 
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2014, 09:01:38 PM »
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As far as the requirement of demonstrative reporting and writing proficiency examples, well, we've got plenty of HAMber's material right here in the DUmpster.

Yeah. Of course.

This is our chance to help another DUmmie. We are a helpful lot right?
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2014, 09:04:43 PM »
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MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in journalism
Experience: Experience as a freelancer or staffer at professional media outlets, preferably in the alternative newsmedia realm with clips that demonstrate reporting and writing proficiency.

She's out of luck unless she was able to convince the college to release her transcripts.

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My SO has no Idea!

I have B.A. in Communications from MSSU. But I lost my copies of my transcripts due to the tornado and my flash drive with the electric copy getting stolen at a shelter. I have become delinquent in the payments of the loans due to no job since May 22, 2011. To get the transcripts I have to contact a clearinghouse and set up a payment plan. According to them I must get a paycheck so they can use the numbers on it to start to take payments off of it or my bank account number ( I don't have a bank account).

My SO keeps showing me jobs in my field and is yelling at me to apply. "Stop wasting your education" he says. Those jobs want copies of my transcripts. I can't give them what I no longer have. It like he is putting salt in a very open wound. He won't listen or understand. For now all I can do is pray for one of the fast food or clerk jobs to call. I am hurting so bad and he just won't stop and see what is going on.

So many are in a very similar boat right now in this country. It is a catch 22 for so many, need proof of education to get the job they are trained for, but can't get it due to not working and going delinquent. Thus, can not get the paperwork to change things.

And I am sure they to get to hear it from loved ones. But it still makes you feel alone in this world.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2014, 09:07:30 PM »
I've never applied for a job that asked for my transcripts. 
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2014, 09:12:26 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on October 25, 2014, 09:07:30 PM
I've never applied for a job that asked for my transcripts.

Ditto.  Even as a new graduate, nor was I ever asked for a copy of my high school diploma when I worked retail for $5/hour as a cashier.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2014, 09:14:32 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 25, 2014, 09:12:26 PM
Ditto.  Even as a new graduate, nor was I ever asked for a copy of my high school diploma when I worked retail for $5/hour as a cashier.
My current job requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.  I gave them my resume and that was it.  I doubt they even checked my references... references are nothing more than name-dropping.

Edit:  Actually, they called me.  I never applied there... I just got a phone call one day.  I've been there for four years.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2014, 10:24:09 PM »
I've been thinking about this. I thought that she not long ago claimed to have moved up the food chain and reached the level of top agravator at some agravate-the-hell-out-of-people organization.

Why would she give that up?

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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2014, 11:00:19 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on October 25, 2014, 09:07:30 PM
I've never applied for a job that asked for my transcripts.

I did have to show my degree in my current job. Boss told me that was so they did not get sued since they required it. He never asked for the transcripts though I had them in my briefcase if he wanted them.  Good thing too cause I failed a few classes and had to take them over.   :-)
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2014, 11:01:43 PM »
My last two jobs required a resume and transcripts.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2014, 11:09:45 PM »
Back on topic... LFR writing articles would be an editor's worst nightmare.   :lmao:
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2014, 12:19:59 AM »

     So, an alt paper in a college town filled with hipsters and indie writer wannabes is going to hire a homeless woman who can't spell. Yeah. Right.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2014, 08:40:29 AM »
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     So, an alt paper in a college town filled with hipsters and indie writer wannabes is going to hire a homeless woman who can't spell. Yeah. Right.

My thoughts, too.

They'd have to hire an extra editor just to correct her stuff.
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Re: HAMber is trying for it
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2014, 08:41:11 AM »
Quote from: dutch508 on October 25, 2014, 11:01:43 PM
My last two jobs required a resume and transcripts.

Yeah, but those were two pretty important jobs; not jobs just anybody could fill.
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