I have always been a little bit obsessive and I suppose overly-thorough in most things I do. So it shouldn't surprise me that I am acting like this with my job search. I have been looking for jobs since last summer. I have posted my resume (which I have redone 3 times now) on several sites such as The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, MLB.com, Harpo Studios, the USOC and a couple Christian job searches. I suppose I still don't exactly know which way I want to go after graduation. The problems isn't that I have no idea what I want to do... it's that I have TOO MANY ideas of what I want to do. I came to Mizzou to pursue a career in sports broadcast, and even though I still would like this, I have realized I would like a couple different directions as well. Freshman Trinity wanted nothing more than a job working for a sports team or sports channel revolving around baseball. But through college I have realized what is most important and what I most love doing. While I still LOVE the game of baseball I question whether that is really something I could feel fulfillment in. I have always been a Christian and in college I have lived every year in the Christian Campus House. As I became stronger in my faith I realized that I wanted to do something that could allow me to work for the Lord. Which is why I have applied to several different jobs that revolve around missions. I have been on three mission trips to Mexico since being in school and I truly love the way I feel when on them. Another thing I have learned as my college years went on, was that I feel the most excited and passionate about photography and videography. I love telling stories with pictures. If you would have told me my freshman year that I would prefer being behind the camera versus in front of the camera when I became a senior, I would have thought you were nuts. But it is true, I not only love filming moving pictures but also still photography. I have been doing photography as a hobby all my life. Once I got into college I saved up enough money to get myself a professional SLR camera. I bought a Canon Digital Rebel and I have been really serious with my photography for a couple years now. I have taken 3 photography courses through the art school and one with the Journalism school. I have had things published in papers, I have shot weddings and portraits. So that is another direction I would love to go. Other things I have found out about myself are that I LOVE traveling and being outdoors. I went to China this summer to help report the Summer Olympics in Beijing and I loved being immersed in another culture. I felt the same way a summer ago when I went to the Bahamas and I always feel that when I am in Mexico. I also said I love the outdoors. Naturally I think this comes from being a country girl. I have ALWAYS been an outside person. I love hiking, camping, fishing, and wildlife. I am obsessed with places and things I have never seen and I don't so much mean the man-made things but the natural wonders of the world. I also love that with journalism I can express myself through words and tell not only my story but that of others with what I write.
So as I said I feel a pull in so many directions, I have submitted my resume and put out my feelers into so many things praying that whatever it is that I am suppose to do will reveal itself. I pray everyday that God will help me find the job that I am to do with this life. I just hope that I can find something that involves all my loves--
writing, storytelling, traveling, photography, videography, outdoors, wildlife and most importantly my faith.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
KOMU lessons
I have come so far since the beginning of last year. I remember sitting in the broadcast lab with Ashley Gaughan last year when our first B2 package was due. We were both stressing over our work as we sat in our edit bays, and talked about whether we thought we were going to pass the class. I remember thinking that I wasn't sure if I was going to make it and now I am in Advanced reporting and graduating in May and Ashley has already graduated. I am just so amazed at the confidence and skills that I have developed in just the short time I have been at KOMU. I made it through B3 with no problems and now I am producing the sports show. I am also working on KOMU.com. I guess what brought about this realization of my progress came as I sat in the newsroom just the other day. I was looking around and saw two different B2 shadow shifters and I had to chuckle to myself as I overheard their conversation. They were discussing their packages and the terrible grades those packages received, as well as Greeley and his alter ego S.O.S. I was in their shoes just a year ago. I have made it so far but I know I still have so much more to learn, I wonder when I will finally feel that I have nothing left to learn and I know the answer to that question is never. That is the great thing about the world of journalism, new things are popping up everyday especially with all the involvement of the internet now. I love this field because no matter how many years I work I will never get bored. Their will always be someone a couple steps ahead of me, chuckling at me as I march through lessons they have already learned.
