Ooh, pick me, pick me! Behold, traces of Michelangelo complete with coffee buzz and investigative stinger.Photo: Flickr. Illustration by Bee-rian Lewis-Jones.
Good journalists are like buzzy bees. Publishing is pollination. We create a sweet, healthy product (best consumed in moderation). A queen bee leads the newsroom hive. Snoopiness is a stinger (and we die if we lose it).
And, like bees, journalists are a dying (b)r(ee)d. But it's not cell phones, fungi or pesticides that kill us - our demise lurks in the World Wide Spiderweb. Good thing I've been tangled up in the Internet since pizza.com was an available domain.
Most of my college courses have revolved around writing. Indeed, I very much like the writing lifestyle, minus the times when I'm bee-littled by the hive queen. Har har.
But I'd think that prospective employers would look past my ability to write and focus on other traits I have: video, music, pictures, graphs, galleries, blogging, RSS.. I dig learning new webby presentation tidbits.
I even know how to RUN a website! Take that, 1996!
And if that's not enough for you, just check my officiation ad:
Currently marrying and burying folks as they please! Can oversee baptisms, circumcisions, wedding ceremonies and funerals! Bi-lingual and flexible. Can also double as the wedding photographer and reception band.
A good web guy is moot without a keen writing education and versatile multimedia background. Lucky for me, that's the hive in which I was bred. And even though the hive is crowded, hectic and smelly, it sure can be sweet.
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