I've spent the past year contemplating my future and my purpose in this vast universe that is one's career. The only thing that has kept my sanity and passion throughout it all has been my love for news and politics. A long day or night in an office running around like a chicken without its head and nothing brings me back to reality than listening to CNN or MSNBC on the way home. I reminds me that in this world of menial tasks and little victories lies something so much bigger, the state of the world and the issues that truly shape our lives. Throughout it all, I've come back each time to the realization that the spread of information is what I want to do with my own future. Either through documentaries, non-profit work, research, polling and studies, or my biggest goal, news media production, I want to work with a team that strives to inform ordinary people of the issues and solutions that get discussed everyday across this country. I want to grow in this decade of my life, learn what it takes to be a great journalist and hopefully, somewhere down the line, open some audience to a different perspective and initiate critical thought.
This will be an outlet of mine for the months, maybe years to come. I have many goals to accomplish, such as learning the AP style of written editorials, to teaching myself the tricks of FinalCut so that I can hopefully edit pieces I wish to produce one day. This is a small step, but a commencement none the less.
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