How does a foreign correspondent combine family life with a stressful journalism career?
“There are times you have to leave family and just go and do something at the spur of the moment or spend time away from family just because a news event is happening. That doesn’t suit your personal life often, normally in fact,” said Aylmer. “You do get phone calls in the middle of the night,” he said. However, Aylmer said that the positives far outweigh the negatives. “It’s a hard club to get into but once you’re in, there so many opportunities,” he said. What happens to a foreign correspondent that is stationed back home after a long stint overseas? “One of the big problems they have here is actually keeping the people that come back from postings. It’s hard to settle back into a smaller role or a smaller-focused role. That’s a real challenge. You have to be prepared for it. That you’re going to come back to a job that’s not going to grab you as much as your previous one,” said Aylmer. “People come back to the same place and get very unsettled. It’s a problem because [companies] sp
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