My shift this week went very well. The closer I am getting to the end of the semester, the more comfortable I am feeling. I am really going to miss it over the summer.
I really wish that I had applied for one of the summer positions, I don't know if I would have gotten hired but I really don't want to stop for the summer. I may end of up doing some shifts in my spare time because I don't know if I want to go the whole 4 months without being on the radio.
The longer that I am on WHSN, the more comfortable I am, which sounds like common sense but when I was first learning, I never thought it would come so naturally.
"It's like learning to drive a car, once you know how, you wont ever forget," is what my friend Ashlynn use to tell me. She use to have to help me do my homework in adobe audition my first semester learning radio. I lost my patience and ended up switching to journalism because I thought that I wasn't cut out for radio. Even after changing majors, I still felt drawn to radio broadcasting so I came in over breaks to do air shifts and get more comfortable on the air and familiar with the equipment. Now I see that was probably God working in my life because it led me back to radio, after building that confidence and some hands on learning.
Now I tell Mark Nason, the station manager and my radio teacher that radio ops (the first radio class for broadcasting majors) should be taught inside of WHSN, since the class is so small (since there are not many broadcasting majors at NESCom) and it is much easier for most people to learn with a hands on experience.
I have been showing some people in my radio news class how to use the board since they have to sit in for 2 news casts as part of a quiz grade. Showing people the radio aspect and how the news is done on WHSN brought me back to my days of nauseousness and belly-flops prior to my shifts. I convinced one of the guys in my class to do the weather update after he sat in with me for an hour. He did a great job but he was so nervous and it definitely put things into perspective for me.
My journey through journalism was definitely not a wasted experience. Through that I learned that I want to do something in broadcast journalism. Isn't it funny how God uses person experiences to reveal things to you. Within a short period I remember feeling so defeated that I wasn't going to be on the radio, then torn between radio and journalism once I learned the skills and gained a therapeutic comfort level to be on the radio. After a few months of agonizing over which career path I would choose, I FINALLY decided in a career between the two fields. In the end, I did switch back to radio but I sat down with both advisors and was able to pick the exact classes that I will need to be on the correct course for a broadcast journalist.
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