"You’re a newspaper journalist. Your editor doesn’t care that your sources won’t call back, she needs that story by 10 p.m. You rarely get to see your kids before they go to bed because that government meeting you’re covering drags on until late at night. You file a story about a complicated issue and you just know the next day some expert is going to call in and point out how you got the story wrong. You get crazy people calling in daily demanding you to write a story about such-and-such or accusing you of having a bias.
But worst of all, you do all this with the understanding that you’re being tremendously underpaid." [From Bloggasm]

You make crap for cash. Your achievements are barely noticed. Your company's idea of encouragement is not firing you. The last time you spent more than twenty good minutes with your kids or significant other was two weeks ago, give or take a month. [From gawker.com]

Welcome to my life. Tis kinda nice (in a pathetic way) to know that my burnt-out gopher ass is a recognised phenomenon worth a study. It's prolly as much recognition as I'm ever gonna get.

Speaking of burns, it's the third-degree kind that goes soul deep, causing irreversible scarring and ultimately, DEATH.

Anyway, the study has these quotes that had me near to tears when I read them. Quoth a 27-year-old man:

"The majority of mainstream coverage is frivolous and mind-numbing. It seems we’re intentionally trying to dumb down the public, rarely tackle real issues that make a difference or expose deceits of authorities. . . I feel my soul being drained every day. . . And as soon as the right opportunity presents itself, I’m outta here!"

Uncanny! This sounds like me!