I'm the type of person that questions ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. I constantly ponder on the "what if?" "why?" mentality which can be quite dangerous, but at the same time it's the only way I can actually relax. Over the last 3/4 years (especially during college), I've been listing down all the possible professions I could be. Funny enough, most of them have been scribbled out, and I'm left with:
- Broadcast Journalist
- News Reporter/ Broadcaster
- Presenter
A Broadcast Journalist because...
A lot of people that know me well know that I am a very confident and enthusiastic individual never afraid to show my personality and interact well with others. I believe that this job role expresses just that; talking to people from [.....]
Okay well I hope to purchase an A3 book soon which will also be known as my portfolio! The only two things I can imagine being put in there right now is:
[not really in order]
1) When I was in Year 10, I and a lucky few got the chance to visit The Newspaper Education Trust, looked around the huge building located in Blackfriers, saw how newspapers were made there, and were even given the chance to produce our own news stories. We were allocated different roles, my role [.....]
I think it all started with the motivation of my year 8-10 English teacher, Miss Kierney, who always gave me props for how interested I was in her lessons and my excitement to do homeworks on reading/analysing texts, and even writing essays. She made me enjoy English more than any other subject and got me into reading a lot. She was such a great motivator as she always wanted me to achieve highest, even though I always obtained great grades in her class. I even felt a bigger push when she moved me up to a higher group when the GCSE years began, which definitely boosted my confidence in English.
Also, over conversations with Claudia, during secondary school I [.....]
Right, so before/soon after I graduate, I hope to have done bits and bobs of work experience, and hopefully; a big opportunity to work at a firm or somewhere! So I'm thinking...when creating my portfolio to show to employers, do I include my personal statement but not necessarily call it a personal statement? Hmmm.. Afterall, it does have a lot to do with my future aspirations.
This is it anyway:
"My passion is to study to become a Journalist by studying this degree to develop useful and diverse skills including critical analysis of presentation skills, writing skills and most importantly, practical media skills. After studying to become a Broadcast journalist, I would love to strengthen my ability to have strong [.....]
"You need to be clear in your mind about the career path you wish to follow, carry out your research and select the course which suits you, your pocket - or your parents' pocket - and where you want to study.
Any subject you learn at school can prove to be useful for journalism. However, try to select subjects that you are good at, enjoy and will do well at. The same applies when choosing your degree."
^ along the lines of this, is what I've always been told when in doubt of subject choices! I definitely made sure that when it came to choosing a degree, I would choose one that I genuinely would enjoy [.....]
When I was advised to do this by my mentor Claudia, I honestly didn't know what this even meant! But I knew if I did have an interview for a newspaper, tv show or firm; I would need some type of proof of (some) work that I have done and also bits and bobs expressing my interest in a profession. If I hopefully get that job (hypothetically speaking) then it would be great as that would be another job added to the portfolio! So far I can honestly say that I've done about 3/4? Wahhh I'll talk about those in a bit :-) wow! This blog is suprisingly going okay considering I made this 10 mins ago lol! [.....]
"Why a journalist?" "Aren't they the annoying people that pap celebrities all the time?!" "Omg so you're gunna be writing for sleezy mags like OK!"
To be honest, and what came to my acknowledgement is that to be the kind of Journalist I would like to be is NOT easy. After the help of visiting various workshops and seminars I found out the best and only way to actually get there, is to WORK YOUR WAY UP! And thats what I intend on doing. Even working where I wouldn't call ideal Journalist jobs such as working for "OK!" is STILL working your way up! As (I think) the saying goes; "you've got to kiss a couple frogs to find [.....]
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