My Top Five Career Choices
by These are my career choices – if in two years print newspapers no longer exist.
For the past year, I have attended Eastern Illinois University. Until I came to came to this school, I was set on becoming a writer. I had been one my entire life, and it just felt like the correct carrer path to choose. Once here and involved on the student publication, I discovered there are more options to journalism than writing. The web design I once loved to do may now have a chance to come back into my life. And, my skills as a photographer may be given the opportunity to sharpen if I enroll in the classes.
With all these angles to think about, I have had to reevaluate what my future career choices may be once graduated from college. Until a year ago, I was set on journalist. If I would continue this, I would be going into print newspapers or print magazines. More than likely, I would also be writing for online. A journalist’s work goes beyond interviewing, however. They have to know how to organize a story and often some stories come right under deadline. I’d be working in all weather conditions, interviewing all different kinds of people, and there would be the great chance I might get to travel if I get onto a beat. I’m torn with this, though, because news writing is starting not to interest me as much. Also, print journalism is being pushed out the door by online and digital reporting. If I focus my concentration on writing, I may not have a job in two years when I leave school.
Option number two falls back onto my web design experience. It wasn’t long before I got used to Mac computers and all the Adobe software. In Journalism, we use primarily InDesign and Photoshop. Very rarely do we use anything else, and my skills on both are building as I work on student publications. I have been a page designer for the school’s newspaper for the past year, and I plan on continuing this throughout school. My strongest skills are in computers, word processing and design. While I could probably pick up my web design if I had to, I’d rather have a job as a page designer for a magazine. While newspapers may go out, I believe magazines will always be there. Page designers also copy edit and proofread the pages before they go to the printer. I’m in the process of sharpening these skills to better my journalist techniques.
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