Beginnings
August 23rd 2006 22:34
It is August. I have been unable to find work for 8 months. How depressing. My name is Matt and this is about my search and quest for my dream career.
Let me take you back to where it all began.
I graduated high school in 2003 and started studying journalism at a private college in 2004. I graduated last year with resounding success; I had my shit going on!
I did work experience at a popular Sunday magazine in one of the most well known companies , where I ended up becoming published . From there I started doing Party Reporting for a pull out of the same company. Man, that was a blast. All I had to do was go to a launch, or club opening, or premier, drink alchohol, socialize, and then write a hit and a miss about the event. I LOVED IT!
Then it was coming to the end of the year, and I thought to myself ‘Oh, I need to start thinking about a serious career with this mag!’ So I went to the editor, said ‘Hey, I’m graduating in a few weeks, would love to have a meeting and talk about my future with you.’ I have not done a party since.
During this time I was also doing voluntary work for a government funded AIDS company. They funded a magazine called SX Youth, which was a magazine foldout from a free gay paper. I did two issues with them and then that magazine folded. There are many more stories where that comes from; from where I wrote for Tharunka, a Queer newspaper, another ACON publication called Sticks and Stones (which will hit newsstands soon! Long story,) an e-mag called ‘Ignite,’ the list goes on!
Yet, for a person who has accomplished so much for the ripe old age of 20, employers feel I am too young, too energetic for ‘such a mundane job,’ too inexperienced yada yada yada.
The quest continues.
Let me take you back to where it all began.
I graduated high school in 2003 and started studying journalism at a private college in 2004. I graduated last year with resounding success; I had my shit going on!
I did work experience at a popular Sunday magazine in one of the most well known companies , where I ended up becoming published . From there I started doing Party Reporting for a pull out of the same company. Man, that was a blast. All I had to do was go to a launch, or club opening, or premier, drink alchohol, socialize, and then write a hit and a miss about the event. I LOVED IT!
During this time I was also doing voluntary work for a government funded AIDS company. They funded a magazine called SX Youth, which was a magazine foldout from a free gay paper. I did two issues with them and then that magazine folded. There are many more stories where that comes from; from where I wrote for Tharunka, a Queer newspaper, another ACON publication called Sticks and Stones (which will hit newsstands soon! Long story,) an e-mag called ‘Ignite,’ the list goes on!
Yet, for a person who has accomplished so much for the ripe old age of 20, employers feel I am too young, too energetic for ‘such a mundane job,’ too inexperienced yada yada yada.
The quest continues.
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