Help wanted: New writing job for me. . . part-time.

Since July 2 I was "let go" from my last writing job. The news from the general manager bummed me out, but didn't make me mad or angry. I'm retired and was writing part-time for a local weekly for exactly two months. I didn't surprise me either.

I am a good writer. I have worked as a freelance and professional journalist at four or five different publications. Those I left because I got married, moved or took another job. This time is was not my choice to stop writing for them.

The production person was peeved at me for several mistakes she made. I wasn't working according to her system. Thus, they claimed that it was "all about the money." Of course, they hired the intern reporter in my place. Probably for my same salary. I knew that the publisher was tight with the funds, and given the choice of keeping me on part-time or hiring a rookie who would do anything she was told to (because it was part of her internship grade), he saved money over keeping both of us working. She is full-time while I was part-time.

Mentally, I compared it to an old TV sitcom I saw many, many years ago. Tommy Lasorda was hired to coach a new team after being fired again from the Dodgers. He wasn't doing what the owner wanted, so  a young manger had to fire Tommy. When he did, Lasorda wasn't upset or anger, he told the young manager, "This is part of the job. I get hired. I get fired. I'll find another job." Something like that.

That's my mental state of mind right now.