The Business I've Chosen

I've successfully completed four days of Spring Break work for the radio station. One more to go. On Friday, I'll go about my normal day, or at least what I've called normal for the last week. My alarm will go off at 9, but I'll make deals with myself to stay in bed until 10. Then I'll get ready for the day and do some at-home show prep. Then it'll be lunch time, when I'll make my 13th cup of easy mac. And then it's off to the station.

At first, I thought I'd be really happy and relieved to be done with this week, and get to the weekend where I can get some school work done and relax. But now that's it's actually almost here, I think I'm going to be sad when I turn my microphone off for the final time. I've had such a great time and learned so much in just a few short days, and I don't really want that to end.

Maybe one of the reasons why is that I kind of felt like an adult this week. I got up, went to work, and lived by my schedule. No classes, just the regular work schedule. Of course, I think it would have been better to have other human beings in the same zip code, but I learned to live with it.

But that's the nature of the beast I work for, it could be something new every week, I might be working by myself a lot, especially if I'm on the radio, and lots of stays in strange hotels (or empty college dorm rooms) could be in my future.

There's a quote from the Godfather... I'm not sure which one (I think there's more than one, I've never seen it... them?) I actually just heard it on ESPN. But the quote goes something to this effect: "This is the business we've chosen." I think it means that people know what they're getting into when they're choosing a career. Whether that career is as a journalist or a mobster, you know what the pros and cons are of that job. I think I'm finding out some more of the cons of my chosen field, but here's the cool part: I still want to do it.