This personal essay recounts the author's unique experience working as a journalist in The Villages, a massive retirement community in Florida, before transitioning to a role as an editor in Denver. It highlights the contrast between the two environments, the valuable lessons learned, and the search for a fulfilling career path.
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The first several months as a general assignment reporter were hard, with Villagers yelling at me for interrupting their Mahjong games when I tried to talk to them in recreation centers for club briefs, but things started to look up when I was promoted to the arts and entertainment beat.
I became an editor at the age of 24 after training with a writing coach and completing a rigorous six-month-long leadership academy, all opportunities that I would’ve been pressed to find in most modern newsrooms. But living in a retirement community was depressing and isolating., but it did not want some Floridian who had never been to Denver before. I ended up in Denver anyway, finally landing a job atas the editor of five weekly newspapers in the metro area west of Denver.
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