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"Choose my future"

I'm not one to seek advice from strangers but I really need some help making up my mind here.

I'm not sure what course to do at university - I can take one of two routes, which are:

1. Journalism

2. Creative writing / Script writing

I feel more inclined towards the second category as I feel I woudld enjoy it more, though I think it is probably a harder area to get into and harder to find work in, whilst journalism can apply to papers, magazines and e-zines, all which pay decent wages.

I know everything isnt about money, though I'd like to have the security of knowing a job would be easily availible.

Give me some advice, please.

If you want to work for the media - and be part of all that makes everything so-wrong with the world today - then, by all means, go with option one.

However, if you'd rather go your own way to express yourself more and perhaps even write your own books, go with option number two.


If I were you, I'd go with 2, anyway. :)

Go into journalism, you'll never make it as a creative writer, don't kid yourself.

Come on, seriously now. You can write a few short stories and that's about it. Hardly anyone likes them, they're not even that good. You'd just be pushed out more crap into a world already overfull with crappy crap. Look somewhere else.

Also, learn to follow your heart, and not what people tell you to do. Trust me on that. Money is no security compared to your faith in yourself.

Grix is a deep, deep man.

Stinngin' man!

G'won Para, where's da comeback?

yo mum

I think you should go with option 13: Gay Porn Actor.

Like some crazed parent, he attempts to force his own failed dreams upon to the young.
Tsk, Black Glove, tsk.

TSK.

Black Glove wrote:
> I think you should go with option 13: Gay Porn Actor.

I agree

*Pre orders a dvd* :p

I think u should do what it takes for the job ur most going to enjoy the, and not regret choosing 5yrs down the line.

I've come to a conclusion that I think I am better at writing than I actually am and perhaps I should do history instead. However history opens up very little options for me in the field of work, history teacher or museum worker being about it.

I also do computing which I am dropping due to the fact I cannot do it too well, so that rules out furthering it.

Media is the only other thing I have left, and most media courses are in place just to attract less academic people to university.

I really think I might not bother going.

The media I could see being quite interesting. I often thought that I would like to write for a magazine, some kind of humour filled lads mag or something. But due to the fact that my English skills pretty much suck I couldn’t really see that going anywhere.

If you went into that field it could also give you some contacts or something should you continue to write.

Murrr, it’s your life, do what you want.

Even if it’s illegal. I need to work too you know!