Fighting your journalism demons Part 1
Another week has gone by and you’re still thinking of journalism as the right career pathway for you? Maybe you’ve almost figured it out? Well, I’m still in the dilema.
My journalism masters course keeps me entertained and motivated. I’m doing it full time combining it with part-time work. This is my first year, and I’m also adding a short course on voice trainning, also run by the university.
The voice trainning course will have me talking in an authoritive newsy style in no time. I’ll be talking like those serious news presenters from the ABC. I might also pull off well a sexy Sandra Sully voice. “Coming up in the 10 o’clock news…”. Just practicing my future television or radio voice makes me hype!
Yes, all the studying keeps me on my feet and determined to fight for what I want, but it also gets lonely, scary and confusing when thinking if I’ll really make into news one day.
For the past years the pathway has looked very obscure, and at 25 I’m trying to work against time. You can say I’m fighting my journalism demons as result of currently working in the marketing/advertising/online publishing field.
Instead of combining full time uni with a journalism job, for example as community newspaper intern or a paid tape librarian at Channel 9, I’m working on the other side of the field, and it’s not always greener.
It’s not greener or merrier since the more I reach to end of the semester and eventually the course, I would not have taken the opportunity to get more journalism experience or bylines on my plate. The journalism experience I have so far won’t be enough to score a job straight out of uni. The more I stay in the online publishing, marketing, advertising field, known to me as the OPAM mix, the further away I’ll be in acheiving my dream job.
