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Your Career in TV |
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great adivce |
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05/10/2005 |
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...and have felt as so many of you have at one point or another. This is a heart-breaking business and really doesn't always live up to what we make of it in our minds when we're young eager students and want it so bad it hurts.
I've gotten over the humps and come to terms with this career by seeing it for its downsides, but working to try to make it better. I'm lucky because I'm at a station that allows that kind of attitude. I'm at a station that allows us to actually BE journalists from time to time (often enough to make us happy and keep us going).
A way to do the kind of stories you want in this business -- start setting them up yourself (if your desk will allow you). Find the hard news peg, set the story up and sell it to the producers and desk. Shoot, if it's one less thing they have to do, the better. And I'm not talking fluff features all the time. The more you can call your own shots, the better for you, the better for the newscast.
And for all those hopeful newbies out there -- I've said it before, I'll say it a million times more -- right now, write on a piece of paper what you want out of this business. Write down how you think this career will fulfill you. What are your expectations, what are you willing to live with and what is absolutely intollerable to you. Then, down the road, when you feel these frustrations, look at that piece of paper. If you aren't getting out of it what you wanted -- you'll KNOW it's time to leave. |
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that was great advice tvmisha. makes a lot of sense.
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