"What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?"
I wish I could respond to that like Kelly with a simple, "I'm going to get what I want!" But all she wanted was shoes. I want to know what the hell I AM going to do with my life!!!
I love guard more than anything and I know that deep down in my heart. I don't know where I would be today without it, it has affected me that much. Almost all of my best friends I know because of it and I know my life would be incredibly different had I not joined way back when...wow, it's hard to believe that was five years ago.
But I love journalism a lot, too, and let's be honest, there's more money there (not much more, but there really isn't any in guard unless you're Fred J. Miller). I love tearing stories apart and editing them to make them better, both mine and other people's. I was working today on my research paper, the topic being credibility in journalism, and was reading about the roles of copy editors and that sounds like something I'd enjoy. I'd need more design skills probably, and just more overall experience in journalism, but that's why it's my major, duh. I can see myself working on a paper in that role.
However, working on a paper means I couldn't coach. I don't see how it would work out - a paper is a 24/7 job almost. I really want to coach, too, and pass on my love to others. That's why I've thought about PR and teaching, but don't see how much I can do with either of those (definitely not teaching...you can thank TE 150 for that).
And you know what sucks about this? I wouldn't even have gotten in to journalism if my student teacher hadn't been a guard coach! Sheesh!
So this is the paradox that daily bugs me. I have to decide between two things I love, and I'm probalby going to have to ditch the one I love more. Partly why I'm doing so much of it now. Why does life suck this way?
Oh, and if anyone knows anyone who can drive me to Grand Rapids on Friday morning, the 27th, please put me in contact with them! (It's for Blue Stars - there's a girl there who's going to give me a ride to Minnesota, but I have to get to her first and I really don't want to bug my parents...I may have to though.)
I love guard more than anything and I know that deep down in my heart. I don't know where I would be today without it, it has affected me that much. Almost all of my best friends I know because of it and I know my life would be incredibly different had I not joined way back when...wow, it's hard to believe that was five years ago.
But I love journalism a lot, too, and let's be honest, there's more money there (not much more, but there really isn't any in guard unless you're Fred J. Miller). I love tearing stories apart and editing them to make them better, both mine and other people's. I was working today on my research paper, the topic being credibility in journalism, and was reading about the roles of copy editors and that sounds like something I'd enjoy. I'd need more design skills probably, and just more overall experience in journalism, but that's why it's my major, duh. I can see myself working on a paper in that role.
However, working on a paper means I couldn't coach. I don't see how it would work out - a paper is a 24/7 job almost. I really want to coach, too, and pass on my love to others. That's why I've thought about PR and teaching, but don't see how much I can do with either of those (definitely not teaching...you can thank TE 150 for that).
And you know what sucks about this? I wouldn't even have gotten in to journalism if my student teacher hadn't been a guard coach! Sheesh!
So this is the paradox that daily bugs me. I have to decide between two things I love, and I'm probalby going to have to ditch the one I love more. Partly why I'm doing so much of it now. Why does life suck this way?
Oh, and if anyone knows anyone who can drive me to Grand Rapids on Friday morning, the 27th, please put me in contact with them! (It's for Blue Stars - there's a girl there who's going to give me a ride to Minnesota, but I have to get to her first and I really don't want to bug my parents...I may have to though.)