> I was a mediocre journalist at best...
Then that puts you in the top 0.1%. Be proud.
In truth journalists are unfairly knocked on FR. The average FReeper hears "journalist" and his mind jumps to Dan Rather. Truth is that the average journalist is the guy that's taking pictures of the fire at 3am in his local community, or watching the HS football game to write about in Saturday's paper. 99.9% of journalists will never pen a political word.