Job hunting is evil
Jul. 28th, 2003 03:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamGetting started as a journalist is a pain. The job market is a bit slim these days as well, to make it even better. Granted, I know a lot of hotshots in various media organisations via dad, but approaching them for a 'favour' seems so... Bah. One or two has offered advice and to see if there are openings without me asking, which I guess shouldn't bother me. I just... Sometimes I wish I could escape who my father is, you know? I love him and I'm proud of him but there comes a time where you want to make a mark yourself.
I guess that is part of the reason why I moved to Australia. Where no one would know my father and everything I did would be only about me. I needed to feel just like me, not just his daughter.
And now I'm back in Norway where most people know him and certainly the people in the profession I have chosen will. I'm a strange creature. Sometimes I think I do things just so I will have to confront things I am uncomfortable with. I read badfic. I read neo-conservative opinions. I watch FOX News (but only in doses, or I would have smashed the TV long ago). I read ultra-religious ramblings. I read neo-nazi ramblings (despite having to supress murderous rage for hours afterwards) And now I will (hopefully) work as a journalist and have to face my father's shadow even moreso than I would had I chosen something else.
Yeah, I'm strange. But this is what I have chosen, so I'm going with it. Wish me luck.
Now, come to me, jobbie jobbie... Come to mummy, little job... *hunts*
I guess that is part of the reason why I moved to Australia. Where no one would know my father and everything I did would be only about me. I needed to feel just like me, not just his daughter.
And now I'm back in Norway where most people know him and certainly the people in the profession I have chosen will. I'm a strange creature. Sometimes I think I do things just so I will have to confront things I am uncomfortable with. I read badfic. I read neo-conservative opinions. I watch FOX News (but only in doses, or I would have smashed the TV long ago). I read ultra-religious ramblings. I read neo-nazi ramblings (despite having to supress murderous rage for hours afterwards) And now I will (hopefully) work as a journalist and have to face my father's shadow even moreso than I would had I chosen something else.
Yeah, I'm strange. But this is what I have chosen, so I'm going with it. Wish me luck.
Now, come to me, jobbie jobbie... Come to mummy, little job... *hunts*
