January 13, 2012
I’m blessed!
While simultaneously looking back and forward, I have come to the realization that I am profoundly blessed in so many ways.
Every, and I mean every, opportunity I’ve ever had in my life came from people giving me a chance when I didn’t deserve it. For some reason I’ve always been at the right place at the right time. Things have fallen apart, but from their endings have come wonderful new opportunities. I’m on my third internship, I’m the editor-in-chief of a magazine for GMU, I’ve worked in Student Media for two and half years and worked for my high school’s newspaper for three years.
I’m currently interning at USA Today working for USA Today College where I get to edit articles and then digitally package them. I also get to do some administrative tasks. It is an incredible opportunity and I learn new things every single day. I get to meet people who care about what they are doing and I get to see the business side of journalism. It is everything I could ever want in an internship.
With my magazine, which will cover diversity at George Mason, people are once again giving me a chance. I’ll get to recruit a team of writers, photographers, videographers, sales people and designers. I get to really create something from the ground up.
And hopefully, if I’m once again lucky, at this end of the semester when I graduate some company will give me a chance and let me work for them.
I hope to the Lord that I will get to stay in my beloved Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C. area, but I am willing to move anywhere. Besides, moving may be a good experience. When I went to Pennsylvania I truly felt like I grew up in a way. Going somewhere would be an adventure.
I’m not exactly sure why I wrote this post. Mostly because I felt bad that I’m such a bad blogger, but mostly because I wanted to express how very lucky and blessed I am.
I have asked a number of seasoned journalists how they got their start in the business and they usually say the same thing: they were in the right place at the right time. I guess that seems unfair, and it is on a level, but that’s how life is. It’s all about meeting people, taking chances, and half the time just being there.
That’s how it has always been for me.
But while luck can perhaps get you a job, it is your perseverance and work ethic that keeps you there.
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