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vtuss
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:51 am 
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At JournalismJobs.com:

Company: Faribault Daily News
Position:
Page designer/copy editor, with a dash of
reporting
Location:
Faribault, Minnesota
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires:
December 25, 2007
Job ID: 856293

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The Faribault Daily News, a 7,000+ circulation, six-day-per-week daily morning newspaper in Faribault, Minn., is looking for a copy editor/paginator who is also able to report on a handful of stories per week. Faribault is a booming city of 23,000 located 30 miles south of the Twin Cities metro area. The successful candidate will have:
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Phillip Blanchard
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his own hair shirt.
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What exactly could someone expect a range to be in a salary negotiation for such a job? 25? 35? 40+?
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Waltz in and ask for $700,000, then stonewall for a couple minutes and fly home after what was, hopefully, a free lunch (or at least a free Coke).
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Bumfketeer wrote:
Waltz in and ask for $700,000, then stonewall for a couple minutes and fly home after what was, hopefully, a free lunch (or at least a free Coke).


That would be a booming city indeed.
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"Handful."

And Faribault, "booming."
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I think it's cruel that Google Maps defies the imaginative adjectives of the good people of Faribault and Eureka CA.
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