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I remember when I was moving from my first job in TV news to my second job.

Somehow, I had to come up with moving expenses and then deposits on the next place I was going to live.

That was not easy to find that money when you were in a job that was paying $15,000 a year.

I remember going to a local pawn shop and pawning stuff I really did not want to give up. Things that were very close to my family. But, I needed money to make it to my next job.

Now-a-days, kids just set up a GoFundMe page to try and raise $3,000 bucks for their next move.

Elijah Baker was working as an Anchor/Producer in Alpena, MI.

He has now landed a Reporter job at WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama and is looking for people to give him $3 grand to make the move.

On his GoFundMe he writes, “Rent is much more expensive in Huntsville in comparison to Alpena. I'm raising money to help pay upfront costs with moving including gas, food, apartment fees, and furniture. I also live with Type 1 diabetes, which makes it harder financially for me because of costs related to the disease. Whatever I had in my van when I first moved to Alpena will be traveling with me to Huntsville. I have a fold-out bed that I've been sleeping on for the past two years and I would like to afford a real bed.”

I’m not sure what this says about TV news that people feel they have to set up websites, begging for money, just so they can make it to their next job.

Can’t this business pay people a wage that they can live on?

Anyway, I don’t know if I would have used GoFundMe back in the day to raise money, I doubt I would have.

But, I get that for some, they see it as the only way.

Here’s the link to Elijah Baker’s GoFundMe and yes, we threw him a few bucks.

Hopefully it will keep him out of the pawn shop.