Its quite beautiful to be living your dream. I never thought I would be where I am. If you asked me a few short months ago.."How close are you to even putting a foot on the right road?" I would have said, About a year if not more. In fact I didn't know, and truthfully I was down and out on my own dream.
Its a terrible feeling. One of the worst things and I have no clue even in this economy why people don't I remember getting started out of College after accomplishing so much on that level, it sucked to be kicked in the ass out the door, with a how'd ya do, thank you ma'am and mountains of debt and nothing to hold onto. I spent the Summer after college getting rejected from Opportunity, after opportunity. I made the worse decision of my life to settle on a job....selling life insurance, to be honest I sucked real bad at it. Then watching football one sunday I heard a little factoid about Chris Redman Backup QB for the Atlanta Falcons (His ESPN Player Page)Who quit football for a time and sold insurance for some time, turns out he sucked and came back to football. It boggled my mind, but made me even more antsy to get to my dream and where I wanted to be...So I kept search and after holding down a job at a call center for 3 months, I finally got my opportunity where I am currently. I'll talk more about the time in between later on in other posts, but tonight lets get to the meat of it all and my reasons behind this blog.
When you feel like a failure there isn't alot of places to turn to, you can't turn to your friends when they are struggling too,especially after you talked up your dream, its hard to turn to professors, and its even harder to turn to mentors. So for young broadcasters out there, young people who think they might want to turn to broadcasting as a career, I hope you read this blog ,follow my progression and my observations and turn that back into your own passion to keep moving forward to get that first opportunity for yourself, so one day you can look back and know you did something that not many got the chance to do, and that's follow your passion.
I'll go more in depth Tomorrow on the idea of passion and start giving you some tips so you can survive being a young broadcaster in this competitive time.
See you then!
-Paul
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