While looking for a new job, senior Madison Lowe saw an e-mail stating there was a job opening at the Saline Courier.
“It’s designing and placing ads. I’ll also be sending the paper to the press as well as Malvern’s and UALR. I also construct the pages,” Lowe said. “I’m also going to write for them, too.”
Lowe said she will work at the Saline Courier until the end of July.
“Hopefully, they’ll offer me a job while I’m at college,” Lowe said.
Lowe said she is actually in training until May 8 and currently works from noon to 5 p.m. She will start working 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday starting May 17, and is paid $8.50 an hour.
Lowe said she isn’t sure if she would want to make it a life-long career.
“I would choose journalism, and I might eventually, but the reason that I wouldn’t is because is that it’s hard to get a nice paying job as a reporter, as you know, writing for a print newspaper, and if I do go into journalism I would want to go into broadcast, and so it’s hard to get a job in broadcasting, getting paid over $45,000 a year. I would have to move out of Arkansas and I don’t know if I would be willing to leave Arkansas or not,” Lowe said.
Before working at the Saline Courier, Lowe said she worked at McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts. The environmental change is one thing that Lowe said she enjoys about working at the Saline Courier.
“It’s a huge huge difference. I mean it’s so nice to feel like a professional,” Lowe said. “And kind of working around people who are smarter and know what they’re doing, and in control, and not really having to answer to anybody or have anyone breath down my neck while I’m trying to do my job. It’s a huge change from having to work at the fast food industry.”
She said she loves the fact that she works at a paper.
“Journalism is pretty much the only thing I’m good at, and it changed my life. Before it, I was doing drugs and failing school, but once I found journalism I began to excel and feel significant. It’s amazing to be able to continue working for a paper after high school, even though I know it will never replace my love for the Prospective,” she said.
