[pressgang] Episode 9- Both Sides of the Paper

[Katarina Hjärpe]

>
> At the risk of sounding like a broken record, as this episode began I was
> struck again by how unfamiliar it seemed to me.
>

Same - some things came back to me as I watched, but there was a lot I
didn't remember too!


> I totally empathise with Sarah’s exam freak out. The sheer amount of
> information we had to learn for each subject was insane and I can honestly
> say, revising for school exams was highly stressful for me and seemed like
> an impossible task that you could never fully prepare for.
>

I was a wreck for most of high school – my teachers kept telling me I could
get top grades if I just studied a little harder. So I came home in tears
at least once a week, slept for most of the afternoons, did indeed get top
grades, and never found any use for them afterwards. One of my best friend
flunked most of her classes and didn't get a full graduation. Both of us
now work in schools; she's a home ec teacher and I'm a school librarian. If
there's one thing I wish I'd known, it's that it's not worth getting so
caught up in what others want for you that you forget to want anything for
yourself.


> The job offer that The Phone Ranger offers to Lynda really doesn’t sound
> like it’s worth ditching school for. He does seem to be suggesting she
> leave before taking her exams, if I understood correctly. She seems
> initially quite keen, though by the episode's end she has changed her mind
> - quite wisely.
>

Honestly, my experience with media jobs is that this is exactly how you get
ahead, by making connections, throwing yourself in there, and having the
chutzpah not to take no for an answer. Nothing for socially shy people like
me, in other words. :-)
Then again, if Lynda had taken that job, she wouldn't be running the Junior
Gazette professionally a couple of years later!

Katta
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