Help me

If you love sports, don't become a sports journalist. Stay a fan, you'll enjoy sports more.

Become a sports journalist if you love to write. Even as a TV or radio broadcaster, you'll write everything you say (or at least your notes so you can successfully ad-lib). You'll blog and tweet and have to converse and more ways than you count via the written word.

At some point in this job, your love of sports diminishes. Maybe not all the way - I still love games I'm not covering - but certainly to a degree. What keeps you going is your love of a good story, of crafting a perfect sentence. Then crafting a second, and a third, and a fourth, until you've crafted a story that you're proud of.

That's what this business is all about.

 

Thanks sir. .

No sir.I love to write too.I love to put it up too.And I enjoy sports too.Its like that.But,the issue is,how good this field is?People are scaring me off.They say,its no good field.They say,the jobs are not at all secure.We might be sacked any time.Is it true?Also,the salary.They say its just worse.True?

 

You're only 16, so it doesn't really matter. But, yes, it's all true.

See Ace's and BobSacamano's earlier posts to see what to do about it.

(Oh, and a word of immediate advice, just so it doesn't bug all of us: Insert a space between sentences in your posts).

 

I'll call bs on that.
Your love for sports does not have to diminish. I love sports more now than at any point since I was a teen, and that was a long, long time ago.
In fact, based on comments to me, I'd say the ability to convey that passion is what has been most responsible for my successes.

 

You can still love sports, but you have to put aside your fandom for any team you cover.

And if you are a big fan of a college or pro team you don't cover, you won't be free to go to their games very often.

 

Exactly. For me, personally, I enjoy the sports. I love the sports (baseball, football, etc.) rather than the specific teams.

 

How are you guys managing it then?

 

Hey. I went to a MAC school....

 

This is absolutely true.

 

when you learn everything about each sport, find out what you still don't know and question knowledge. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.