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If you’ve read this blog regularly in the past year, you probably already know:
We welcomed our daughter nearly nine months ago, and my life has been permanently transformed. So has the desire to balance my time at home with my time at work. I wrote about these subjects in the recent issue of News Photographer magazine.
I didn’t realize what would stand alongside my column on the next page.
It was a piece from Autumn Payne, a photographer and videographer at the Sacramento Bee, titled, “Yes, you can raise a family and do killer photojournalism, too.”
I read it. I loved it. Payne’s words spoke to me as a new parent, even if she’s a few years further in the process. She wrote around raising her four-month-old daughter while maintaining a foothold in the world of journalism. Check out her web site. She’s crushing it.
Payne is my guest on Episode #69 of the Telling the Story podcast.
This is a worthy conversation, for new parents and for those who plan to one day become parents. Even the most ambitious and driven of us must adjust once they take on the numerous responsibilities of raising a child. But as Payne says, and as I have learned through my own experience, you don’t have to close the door on your career.
“You’re just a little more cognizant of what you’re doing,” Payne told me, “as a person and as a journalist, when you have a little kid looking up to you.”
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