1 A career in broadcast journalism
Shall we start with the anti-social hours? Then the stress, flogging to meet constant deadlines in a world that never sleeps, and time wasted on dubious blogs, vlogs and websites or having the ear burned hot on a ‘phone by someone with a conspiracy theory that links the CIA and the Mafia with your local football team in some global evil. Add some disrupted family life, or your social life is disturbed because you leave the party when you hear that a plane has crashed into city hall. Sometimes you don’t even want to sleep in case something …happens!
Then you read about that man-with-a-tan who gets a dream salary for presenting news – but stick with reality; your annual pay is about the same as his lunch ...
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