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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.
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.
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Ideally if I did do journalism it wouldnt dump me in a newspaper job; I think magazine (either 'lads mag' or music) or e-journalism (web site writing) would be particularly entertaining and suit me. Though I'm not sure if this would be best stemming from a journalism or media degree.
Paradox: wrote:
> 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 came to the exact same conclusion. I was excellent at history, was getting near perfect marks etc. until I dropped it after AS. Of course, there are plenty of lovely career options for history graduates... you can work in the civl service... or even be a librarian. Woop de doo.
> I also do computing which I am dropping due to the fact I cannot do
> it too well, so that rules out furthering it.
Not to put you down, but most do computing to some degree nowadays. From fiddling around looking at porn to applications.
>
> Media is the only other thing I have left, and most media courses are
> in place just to attract less academic people to university.
Oh no, those who take Media Studies for their degree are on a par with physicists really.
>
> 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 came to the exact same conclusion. I was excellent at history, was getting near perfect marks etc. until I dropped it after AS. Of course, there are plenty of lovely career options for history graduates... you can work in the civl service... or even be a librarian. Woop de doo.
> I also do computing which I am dropping due to the fact I cannot do
> it too well, so that rules out furthering it.
Not to put you down, but most do computing to some degree nowadays. From fiddling around looking at porn to applications.
>
> Media is the only other thing I have left, and most media courses are
> in place just to attract less academic people to university.
Oh no, those who take Media Studies for their degree are on a par with physicists really.
>
If you do have to jump into that area of writing, then the rule
experience> degree
applies here.
I know a few well known journalists (might be useful in later life for getting good reviews) in the computing sector, and none of them have a poxy degree in media studies or journalism. OK, so they probably weren't invented then, but any degree should suffice.
My advice would be to take a degree that you know you would last the distance in.
experience> degree
applies here.
I know a few well known journalists (might be useful in later life for getting good reviews) in the computing sector, and none of them have a poxy degree in media studies or journalism. OK, so they probably weren't invented then, but any degree should suffice.
My advice would be to take a degree that you know you would last the distance in.
"Journalism and Print Media" sounds fairly good and suitable-ish
Helios wrote:
> My advice would be to take a degree that you know you would last the
> distance in.
Exactly the reason for not doing computing any more, because if I carry on I will mess it up. I think you can only last a three year course if you enjoy the subject matter and the most appealing subject to me is writing in some form or another.
> My advice would be to take a degree that you know you would last the
> distance in.
Exactly the reason for not doing computing any more, because if I carry on I will mess it up. I think you can only last a three year course if you enjoy the subject matter and the most appealing subject to me is writing in some form or another.
Can't you do a course which is a little from column A and a little from column B?
Choose the creative writing, for instance, but also do an optional, shorter course in journalism - or vice-versa?
Choose the creative writing, for instance, but also do an optional, shorter course in journalism - or vice-versa?
If you plod through the thread you'll see my spontaneous change of heart.
Creative Writing is a hobby, not a realistic career.
Journalism with/and published media are what I need to get my teeth into.
Creative Writing is a hobby, not a realistic career.
Journalism with/and published media are what I need to get my teeth into.
In most author's blurb inside their books it usually mentions that they have a degree in English Lit. I've never seen one that mentions that they took a course in creative writing. However many journalists have become successful authors; perhaps because they get paid to write for a living, they observe human nature and pick up many ideas, they have time to write a book whilst "working" like one journo who said that after Maxwell purchased the Mirror Group (I think it was him or Rupert Murdoch- I can't remember) he took on more journalists and the desk team ended up with 5 paragraphs a day to write between 8 people. Thus he wrote a book whilst at work, in order to appear busy and because he could.
My advice; get a qualification which will lead to a job that is a doss, then pen that best seller at work whilst having the security of a regular income.
My advice; get a qualification which will lead to a job that is a doss, then pen that best seller at work whilst having the security of a regular income.
the sagacious one wrote:
> My advice; get a qualification which will lead to a job that is a
> doss, then pen that best seller at work whilst having the security of
> a regular income.
Thanks a lot, thats the most down to earth advice I've had.
> My advice; get a qualification which will lead to a job that is a
> doss, then pen that best seller at work whilst having the security of
> a regular income.
Thanks a lot, thats the most down to earth advice I've had.
Journalism full time.
Writing spare time.
Writing spare time.
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