2. My job…
…well actually, I don’t have one yet. So I’ll get back to you on that…
In the meantime, newspaper takes up a lot of my time. Though my newspaper class has an “advisor,” the class is pretty independent, with students making decisions and working together rather than the teacher lecturing. As editor, I plan what we do each day in class and lead discussions. The job is a lot harder than I thought it would be, but it is a great experience because I get to work with very cool, intelligent people. There are always things to do: reporting, writing, editing, layouting, planning, etc. As a result, newspaper takes a lot of time, especially on deadline nights, when we stay at school until 10:30 p.m. (By about 8:00 on these nights, everyone has gone a little crazy, but that’s part of the fun of it all. What’s not part of the fun is coming to school the next day…). Because we manage ourselves, we have more freedom and more fun.
I hope to do more journalism in college, but I don’t know if I want to pursue journalism as a career. For now, though, it’s the closest thing I have to a job.
