Options
Some things I might be able to pursue now that my hopes of being the Assistant SID are gone:

-The radio station at Hampton, WHOV, is looking for a play-by-play voice for football and basketball, as well as general manager of the radio station. Given my background in radio from ODU, this would be a great chance to take, depending on pay.

-Start looking to get back into sports writing. I can still do freelance work for the newspaper, but a full-time gig in newspapers is ... worse than iffy. However, there is writing online and for magazines, which I could pursue. I have a lot of experience in this, too.

-Start looking for sports information jobs at other schools. There are a lot of local schools to try, and a few other schools who are friendly with Hampton I could look at. Almost a year and a half of working in sports information, I have a general idea of what the deal is.

-Become a political journalist. Full disclaimer: the only way I would do this is if I could first get a master's degree in something like political science or humanities or the like. My background right now is in sports, not politics, so I'd need to get something in that vein. I think a poli-sci master's would nicely compliment my bachelor's in communications.

So I have options; there are a couple ways I can go with this. And it's worth noting, in case a few of you don't get it ... I'm not leaving my current job until I get something else. Yeah, I'm bummed and pissed my promotion didn't work out. But I'm employed, and I get paychecks to pay my bills, so I'm not going to dump that without having another plan in place.

I'm not stupid, people.