We all know college is super expensive. I don't care if you have all the scholarships you possibly could. Everyone in college needs some extra money every now and again.
The best kind of job you can get while in college is one that is related to your major. This was the first thing I did even before I moved to college for classes my freshman year. I was lucky enough to make a connection beforehand and got to see what kind of stuff I could do with this job.
Working at a job in the journalism field has been one of the best choices I've been able to make. I've learned how TV crews set up a sports production for game days and I've even gotten to run the camera several times for sports such as volleyball, soccer, and basketball. This spring I will learn camera for baseball.
Being involved in this job has given me other opportunities to learn more about the field of journalism. I had always been interested in digital media, but I never thought about trying it from the side of print media. At the beginning of my sophomore year, a professor I had for a journalism class said the sports editor for our newspaper needed more writers.
I was able to jump at this opportunity and immediately start writing for them. Of course, I did it for the experience. But with this I have also learned even more about sports I don't necessarily keep up with. It's amazing how much you learn about something when you're constantly surrounded by and talking about it.
As a bonus, I'm currently one of two girls on our sports desk, the other is our editor. How cool is that? Realizing just how male-dominated the world of sports journalism is has made me even more determined to make my mark and show that I'm just as capable.
If I wasn't working these two jobs that give me the best opportunities I could ask for while stil in college, I really don't know what I would be doing.
