Laura Fa: "Salaries in Madrid are much more competitive than those here."

As a child, journalist Laura Fa (Barcelona, 1974) wanted to be a war correspondent. However, she quickly redirected her career and found her battleground in "the most guerrilla sector there is": the celebrity press. She studied history and journalism: "I was already working, but I did the degree because I didn't want anyone to tell me I wasn't a real journalist." In fact, she claims there was no curriculum for her specialty: "Everyone looked at me as if I were an alien; I had to take society classes," she explains in a statement to the Spanish National Radio.Companies.

Fa was born into a family with "professionally clever" parents, and she was raised as such. While still in high school, she entered the working world: "At first, I did street surveys; I'd even gone to Cáceres to do so. I also babysat and coached, until I was old enough to work as a saleswoman in the family video store business."

The reporter entered the world of communications working at Radio Ciutat de Badalona: "The local press was very important and we had decent salaries; you could live well." Later, while working at theArucitys, on 8TV, they called her to work in Madrid: "I said yes and asked if they would pay me anything."

The journalist collaborated in Open Your Eyes, Butterfly Hunter and Save me"I've made a very good living in Madrid. There's more economic stability because the salaries are much more competitive than here." However, she really enjoys working in Catalonia: "I do gossip columnists with a touch of humor. I hope things will change from now on and I can make a living here."

The current co-presenter of Mamarazzi She also collaborates with other media outlets, and the sum of these collaborations constitutes her work: "If I lose a job, I have others. Besides, I don't have any, I'm super free and flexible." On the other hand, she can't get sick: "I don't have sick leave or paid vacation. And if I lose four collaborations at once, I think, what now?"

The position of the self-employed is often complicated: "I couldn't even give birth in peace, after five weeks I had to go back to work at the'Arucitys because I lived in fear of losing my job," explains the journalist. And she continues: "I returned so soon because of the suffering it caused me to have someone take my place and not being able to return." That two months after giving birth, your program is changed for another, during a vulnerable time, seems at least in bad taste to me if it wasn't her who chose it. In any case, I'm sure she takes it with great enthusiasm."

In this sense, she says: "Conciliation doesn't even cross your mind. In another job, if your child is ill, you can say it at the office, but I can't say on TV 'I'm not coming in today', because then I don't get paid." Hace is aware that in her sector she earns a good living, even so, her job is very unstable in terms of income: "What you end up saving every three. She combines life with a partner who has a stable salary and schedule: "We complement each other and save. Although not much, because we also spend it." They mainly spend it on leisure, going on trips, going to restaurants and going to the cinema. "What has cost me less and has given me the most satisfaction is my caravan, with which I spend the summers in Port de la Selva," he emphasizes.

years ago he sold it to buy a bigger one: "I pay a mortgage that is much lower than what renting would be and it will end up being my own apartment. It is an investment." Now he has already paid half.

Regarding personal finances, his latest job change, fromPublic mirror to The TV family, has been a bad economic decision: "I thought, well, a cool project and that it would work for me financially, but of course, it didn't last even two months." You learn from everything and he is currently negotiating for a possible project in 2Cat: "I hope to do a television program in Catalan and with Mamarazzis; with that spirit that Lorena and I had in theArucitys".