On being a sad journalist

Sometimes I get sad about journalism. Sometimes I feel doomed to a life of excessive stress, long hours and tons of cats. I question the work I’m doing in school to obtain a degree in this field that is hard to break into and even harder to make an actual living in. But through all my worries and woes, I do see the gifts pursuing a degree in journalism have given me. Here are things a journalist can do that other people can’t:

-Talk to people (we are very socially apt beings)

-Write above a 10^th grade English level

-Be creative, be serious, be critical, be inspiring (all at once!)

-Learn stuff. All the time. No restrictions to what, from who or how much.

Double yeah!