Social sacrafice

When someone wishes to enter a career in such a fast moving and competitive area such as journalsim you have to make sure you have a good set of experience. Similarly to when you sit down to a game of poker with the professionals, you can't be unknowledgable...either that or you simply wave goodbye to your hard earned cash. Well i am sure you get my drift anyways.

This blog will hopefully improve my literacy skills and prepare me for the job where writting will be my living.

I have already mentioned that journalism is a competative business but im sure you already knew that. To work in any media is infact competative. Many people have a gloryfied vision of how a person in the media lives - expencive cars, designer clothing and a big house. Truthfully i wish it to be like this. Perhaps if i am successful enough then i can change the vision into reality, now thats setting myself a high goal!

I am currently a university student studying a degree in 'whaddyaknow'..journalism! So far i am still enthusiastic in what i have learnt and the lecture notes of what is to be learnt. Previosuly i have only been interested in print however i am also taking a liking to radio.

However i have one problem and that is balancing the fun and sociable side with the amount of work that i complete.

Being a 'fresher' is talked of being all fun and games but i want to gain as much as i can knowledgably without being a bore. Especially now that students are set with a £3000 price tag on each year of their degree. I don't want that money to slip down the drain whilst i spend my time tripping from one club venue to another after drinking vast amounts.

It is with this thought that i leave you: shall a student being having this talked about crazy social life of drinking and going out whilst there is work to be done?