Here’s your chance for fame and fortune. Model Railroader is looking for an associate editor. The details are on their website.
Joe, Your qualifications for the job are impeccable, Did you apply, or you’r out of the running because your overqualified.
Or you’r just done with the whole Mag thing?
Dave, you are so kind. Actually, I am no that qualified, modeling-wise. For example, I have yet to build a layout of any kind and I can’t solder worth a hoot or air brush without clogging up my brush and cursing a lot, which wouldn’t sell well on the videos in which you are expected to participate. Plus ya gotta live near Milwaukee, which I deleted from my post just to be politically correct. I mean Dave, I left Buffalo for California and Hawaii, so why would I want to live in Wisconsin? To be near the Packers? Not that there’s anything wrong with either the place or the team (Go Bills!). It’s just that me and the missus hate snow.
As for being “done with the whole mag thing.” I’m just back from the LA Auto Show where I spent the day with my (i.e. Road & Track’s) former art director and my new “boss,” the editor of Porsche Panorama, official publication of the Porsche Club of America, with a circulation of more than 60, 000 a month. Those are big numbers, more than all car magazines except the big five–R&T, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Automobile, and Auto Week. We had a long discussion about print versus internet and all that, and what a magazine is or should be today. No one who reads this forum will ever understand it. Suffice to say, it’s not all about numbers. Rather, it’s about making a profit, which so many of our guys just don’t get. For example, Road & Track which had a circulation of 650,000 or so when I left, is down a lot, but presumably making more money because they reduced expenses (firing the whole staff and relocating from Newport Beach,California, to Ann Arbor, Michigan helped a lot). That took a lot of wind out of my sails. But that’s not to say I’m done. I love to spin a good yarn and the Porsche Club let’s me do that as much as I want. Plus their checks don’t bounce. BTW, I love the new Porsche Macan, mini-SUV. And I’m not an SUV kinda guy.
One more thing: hanging out at the C&TSR had to be the coolest experience in the world for a train guy.
Aren’t you glad you chimed in?
Joe, You don’t have to know how to run the press, to get a good mag on the stands. You only have to know what a good mag is.
BTW: A friend from Bonneville brought up your name, in his search to find out about an old VW powered streamliner that you had done a followup story about years ago. Burly Burl of limited VW fame, and the driving force behind the recent upsurge in VW racing on the salt, is trying to do a story on it for Hot VW mag. Back channel me if you might want to give a bit of info to help with the search. Burly also originated the “Cruse in to the Salt” for years. The two of you met a number of times on the Salt.
i will stick to my day job for now.
I already had my dream job.
Now they pay me a pension to stay hone.
God is good !!!
Thanks for the info, Joe, but I’ll just keep on livin’ the dream here in your old home town………… okay, more like livin’ the nightmare, but hey, nightmares are kinda like dreams……. …. ……….
-Kevin.
BTW- I went to a train show today and it snowed. Another “livin’ the dream” kinda day….
Right there with you Pat, been at my dream job for 17 years.
Terry
Yep I have my dream job also. Been here for 8 years and hope I can last for a while longer till they fire me. How sweat it is to be retired. Later RJD