Yay Katherine!! 
I'm interested to hear what kind of jobs they are.
One is writing/editing articles for a trade pub, the other is writing/editing general-interest lifestyle articles for a marketing company that sells them as website content or newspaper advertorials.
They pay about the same -- not bad, not great. A little less than I was earning 12 years ago, when I left newspapers. Both are in sort of bleak buildings located in suburban industrial parks.
The marketing one has
much better benefits than the trade pub -- much better than I ever got in my newspaper jobs, in fact. It's also in a better location for commuting. So I'm rooting more for that one.
I won't know more for at least a couple of weeks. Neither job really sets my pulse racing, as you can probably tell, but the prospect of a steady decent income is nice. Neither are jobs I would have considered applying for in my 30s. But back then, newspapers were going to last forever and there wasn't an economic crisis and I wasn't something of a displaced at-home mom. I just read a NYT article about people who've gone from six-figure executive jobs to hourly-pay work, including one in a janitorial job, so compared to that I'd feel lucky.
