EVERYTHING I KNOW, I LEARNED ON THE JOB
This article will appear in the July-August 2009 issue of PJR Reports.
EVERYTHING I KNOW,
I LEARNED ON THE JOB
By RG Cruz
By November 21 this year, I will have spent exactly 8 years in the profession of journalism. It was in November 21 of 2001, about seven months after graduating from the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, that I landed my first job. In the months between my graduation and being hired, I confidently mass mailed my resume to all the media outfits I could find here and abroad in hopes I would land that elusive first job. I was even a bit cocky, thinking that my education from the country’s top mass media school would land me a job just like that and put me on the fast track to a bright career.
Boy, was I dead wrong.
Don’t get me wrong. With all due respect to my professors and the institutions inside the State University, they gave me the best education that could be offered at THAT time.
I had a rude awakening when I got my first job and realized that none of what I picked up in school would help me even if to at least just coast along. I could even dare say that most, if not all of the skills I have now as a journalist I learned on the job, and not from school.
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