Good Taste, Poor Work; A Young Professional’s Crave for More
- lewopschall
- Mar 22, 2015
- 2 min read
The last two months creative ideas seem to be flowing out of me like an endless waterfall. I’ll quickly scribble my thoughts down and try to figure out ways to implement them. Then, I get stuck. I envision these ideas for future news stories, documentary series and even books I would like to write one day. However, HOW I get it all done I have no idea. I don’t even know where to begin.
A friend of mine sent me this piece by Ira Glass, a journalist who works for NPR. I recalled watching the video about a year ago when I saw it posted on the wall of a News Reporter Facebook group I am a part of. Watching the video a second time, Ira’s words still spoke to me clearly… here I am with all these “good tasting” thoughts… but I can’t seem to produce them yet.
I would consider myself the hungry type. I want to reach my goals, which are lofty I might add, but I want to reach them now. (Perhaps that shows my lack of patients for the process or reaffirms that I am part of the “can’t wait” generation.)
I spent a couple hours looking at the bios of about a dozen journalists I admire today. I am beginning to entertain the idea of seeking a master’s degree and wanted to see how common it is for other journalists to have a degree higher than a B.A. Many of those journalists did possess a master’s degree. I also couldn’t help but notice something else… years and years of experience. Martha Teichner, a journalist who works for CBS Sunday Morning, has spent more years abroad for CBS than I have years counting my entire career. Teichner did that after working at three different local news stations. I’ve only worked at two. The list of events she’s covered seems endless, and all of them pinnacle parts in history.
If I desire a biography page like Martha’s I need time. Time to acquire the experience. Instead of thinking about my finished biography I need to remember it’s a process, and creating the biography is more fun than finishing it.
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