Off-Topic: Career Choices
When I graduated high school, I wanted to be a journalist. I wanted to travel, write engaging articles to enthrall the public, the whole deal. You might even say I had a passion for writing.
A couple years later I had a couple jobs, bills to pay, and very little desire to write, let alone be a journalist. What changed? I think it was me. When I wrote in high school it was a tool to help me organize my thoughts and make decisions. As I got older those decisions started becoming easier to make on a day to day basis (practice makes perfect), and writing wasn’t something I needed anymore.
Fast forward to the present. Now that I’ve been writing on a consistent basis for our lovely conglomeration of a blog, the though of “hey, I could actually do this with my life” started creeping back in. Then I had a conversation with my dad, my girlfriend, and one of my best friends, and they all–directly and indirectly–encouraged me to try journalism again. All in the same night nonetheless.
I figure, why not? When I started taking classes off and on (three years ago) I was aiming for a Journalism degree. So right now I have the classes I need to do it, I only need to finish of a couple more pre-reqs and I’ll be good to go. Did I mention that with the career change I can put Hijinks Inc on my resume? Yeah baby, yeah.
Fred Smith is the senior video games editor and is our resident grammar and punctuation czar. He prefers to define his career choice as “pending”. His hobbies include basketball, writing, and video games. He is employed by a regional chain hardware store as a salesman/peon. They've written 108 articles for Hijinks Inc.
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glad you decided to pursue that again, fred! you always were a really good writer.