A new job means we get doubts.
It’s the familiar lines such as ‘I’m not good enough’, or, ‘it’s not going to work out for me’. These are normal but they’re not meant to last.
This didn’t happen in one particular case in New York City.
A bunch of upstarts had begun to work for a prominent news outlet. It was an opportunity of a lifetime, a prestigious placement to obtain, but they felt too proud of their first step to see it through.
The escape plan began to be formulated.
They didn’t foresee the news stories coming up as being “aligned” with their worldview, or in the “same lane” as their expertise, so they planned an exit to make a go of it somewhere else.
They picked out Europe as being a place to start.
They landed in Edinburgh but failed at establishing a presence quickly enough. The brand of their former employer was good but not good enough to boost their chances in the Scottish city.
So they moved and settled on London, in England.
This is where their plan began to unravel as they soon turned to spurious methods to get their work done. The work of journalism is hard, and gritty, but it doesn’t need to be criminal for it to work.
It did, however, and they also paid a heavy price for it.
They retaliated and so began a descent into a sort of chaos that only besets those out of their league and out of their depth. It’s the cruel irony of repeating their first mistake and learning a hard lesson.
