Wow.
I feel incredibly satisfied and lucky to say that I have found a job that I would be more than happy to do – day in and day out, this decade and the next.
Seriously.
For those outside of my immediate circle, I’ve been interning in the music department at the CBC for the past two weeks, and it’s been absolutely great.
I’ve never had this experience of the hours in a workday flying by, forgetting to eat lunch, not minding staying past 5 p.m., and actually getting excited on the weekend to start again on Monday.
I may be a little ways away from being able to do this as a form of sustainable living (even though I seriously thought about giving up all of my possessions and apartment so that I can live in a shelter or through the generousity of others and give my labour away for free. I don’t know what I’d do with kitty though… so my strategizing stopped there). But I still feel so lucky that I’ve been given this opportunity to experience work that I find endlessly interesting.
I was reminded last night that my blog is also supposed to be about what it’s like trying to make it in the journalism profession (thanks, Andy). I’ll be posting much more about that in the weeks to come.
I leave for Rwanda in one week. I found out yesterday that I’ll be interning at City Radio, and from what I understand it’s a local station that broadcasts in all three national languages – English, French and Kinyarwanda – and is a mix of both music and news. So excited and nervous.
But I’ll work through the folds of those tensions right here… Yep, blog the pain away.
