The ‘Dream Job’ Exposed

For many a sports journalist’s role may seem like the dream job.

To get paid to sit and watch sport while also traveling the world with famous sports stars and teams, seems like the life.

However, Andrew Ramsey’s 2012 novel ‘The Wrong Line‘  reveals that sports journalism is hardly the so called ‘dream job’ and in fact is a stressful and hard industry to conquer.

Author Andrew Ramsey is a well known Australian journalist who worked for twenty years as a print journalist in Adelaide and Melbourne.

‘The Wrong Line’ is a detailed account of Ramsey’s last 10 years as a journalist working as the cricket writer for The Australian touring the world with the Australian Cricket team.

The book takes the reader on a journey from his first assignment the ‘Hong Kong Sixes’ in 1993 all the way to Australia’s Ashes revenge in 2007.

Ramsey’s account is a fascinating and enjoyable read as he reveals his transformation from being a shy young reporter in the 90s to then being a well respected cricket writer.

He takes you on his own personal ride of stress and frustration that touring sporting journalist have to overcome.

From trying to meet the insane deadlines set my editors, to

then then being put in hotels with dismal internet reception, and to then trying to organize interviews with players who hate you for what has been written about them.

Ramsey’s ‘The Wrong Line’ is an amazing read for any sport lover or aspiring journalist who may want to hear first hand the difficulties that occur doing the ‘dream job’.