So I got into it. Began to learn how the job is actually done. Now, as Sports Editor of my university's newspaper, I rack my brain day in and day out trying to figure out how on earth the very small group of interested sports writers I have working for me are going to cover the enormous amount of sports happening at UCO. My first semester as Sports Editor was a rush. I did a ton of work because there were only two of us. This semester, there are four. This results in me spending more time being an editor than actually going to a basketball game and covering it live.
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Tonight I covered two games live, tweeting my butt off and writing a story about a game while it was still in progress. I rushed to the coaches office immediately following the game for an interview and published my account of the night's festivities withing 20 minutes of the final buzzer sounding on another Broncho loss. I LOVED IT!
I haven't had the opportunity to do this almost the entire spring semester. And do I ever miss it.
I want to send out an order to anybody who stumbles upon this blog and may or may not find themselves in the situation I fell into. Enjoy every second of it because in a very short period of time you will spend all of your time re-writing cover letters and tailoring your resume to different companies desires. You will be preparing for that huge summer internship and your brain will be working double overtime trying to find a way to make it in this world.
Covering sports is what I love and if doing what I did tonight was the way my life turned out, then I would have to say that would be a good life.
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ReplyDeleteI've been working since I was fourteen and attending college sporadically and I still haven't settled into something I really fell in love with yet. Maybe someday soon things will turn around, but you are definitely right about tailoring and re-writing your resume
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