I really love writing, not this kind of writing really. This is just for fun, so it isn't perfected. I love real journalism. Lisa Ling is probably one of my favorites. She does television shows that are interesting and important but she can still do more light hearted stuff as well.
Journalism has been on my list of careers forever. I think I'm just scared to go after it because it is a competitive field. It is part luck too. I read online articles and magazine; a lot of writers aren't good. I need an edge, so I am currently figuring out what that edge could be. I'm thinking languages. I really want to learn Spanish, French and Italian. I figure that this is the easiest road to take since I took French and Spanish in high school and all three of these are romance languages. I need to get started though. Learning languages is a difficult task and in all honesty after a certain age it goes from hard to nearly impossible. I know adding in German would be smart, but it has different rules so it may be too hard to get down four other languages. I think I might just major in Journalism/English and French. Meanwhile I can take classes for Spanish and then just learn the Italian on my own. I have high goals, so it isn't going to be easy.
Like I said, I need an edge; not just for the US, but I want to travel and possibly live in a different country and no one will hire an American unless they have qualifications that someone from their country doesn't. I figure if I am multilingual then that gives me something extra that not everyone has. Also I could write for a British, American or even Canadian magazine (online or paper). My goal is definitely to go to a big city. I'm not a rural or even suburb kind of person. I like busy. People complain about noisy streets or being crammed together, that stuff doesn't bother me. I used to sleep in a room right by a major road and trust me, after a while it becomes soothing to hear the cars on the pavement.
I've been trying to figure out where I want to go; vacation, school and career wise. I have a long list of cities I am dying to visit. The first three are New York,Paris and London. I am obsessed with all three. I need to get moving on these things as soon as possible. The first step is to get my education together. In the meantime I can start some kind of online blog, not this one of course, but a more professional one. I want to combine my passions of culture, sports and travel together. I don't follow the typical sports that are popular in the US. I love tennis and volleyball. I know all about tennis, but am just starting to learn more about volleyball. My favorite thing is how different they are. Tennis is a 10.5 month out of 12 month calendar sport. These players are constantly on the go, which means journalists who write about tennis travel everywhere. Volleyball doesn't have quite the schedule, but it is a world sport. I love that about both of these sports. They have fans in Asia, Europe, both Americas, Africa and Australia. I would love to be able to write about these sports as well as the locations the athletes are playing at. DREAM JOB!
Well, that is it for now.
Megan xo
