Dave Rhea, multimedia editor for The Journal Record shared his knowledge with our blogging class Tuesday.
His job naturally includes many tasks that change from day to day and as he was describing it more, I realized that that was yet another reason why I love the mass communications industry.
No two days are exactly alike.
I like structure in my job, but not so much that I do the same thing every day. One day you may be typing up notes to finish a story or interviewing someone who is a professional something-you-have-never-heard of. Then maybe you layout a page in a newspaper and upload the day's content to the web page.
Or maybe that day, you just sit staring at the screen for hours until deadline demands your immediate involvement.
Again, no two days as a journalist are exactly alike.
Rhea emphasized that you in order to succeed in this industry- in order to move ahead- you must love learning, which he later clarified as also accepting change. This is only growing truer by the minute.
Working in the mass comm industry does not lend itself to a leisurely jaunt through the park. It is a full-speed race in which you must learn on the run, think five steps ahead of yourself and clear hurdles.
Don't expect it to unfold otherwise.
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