The Robertses saw my passion for reporting in the cover letter I sent in March 2019 and thought I was the right candidate. The Lincoln County News and the Roberts family took a chance on me and allowed me to learn the journalism profession the only way it can properly be learned, by simply doing it and inevitably making mistakes. What I found is that most newspapers and other news organizations wanted me to have at least a few years of experience in the profession before they were willing to take on a green thing like me-the ultimate catch-22. I continued to work many different jobs while always keeping an eye on online journalism job boards, never receiving any response from potential employers. I struggled for quite a few years to find a job where I could report on and write the news, after graduating with an ever-impractical English literature degree from Youngstown State University. Oh yeah, and there’s this thing called COVID-19 that I’ve been writing about weekly since March 2020 that has completely changed life as we know it and made the concept of time seem surreal. Two-and-half years doesn’t sound like a significant stretch of time, but it has felt much longer to me as I have learned so much, developed my skills in my first journalism job, and met so many amazing and helpful people. After two-and-half years working as a reporter for The Lincoln County News, covering Damariscotta, Newcastle, Bristol, South Bristol, and Monhegan Island, I will be leaving at the end of the month to accept a position at the Morning Sentinel newspaper in Waterville.
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