The future’s not set. There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves

Now, I know it is a little tacky to have 2 blog posts in a row named after Terminator quotes, but seriously, this time, it is relevant. I always loved this quote in the movies. When you watch other movies, like Romeo and Juliet, they talk about the future and fate as something predetermined. I like thinking that it is whatever we want to make of it.

This eases my mind a bit, as I usually feel the same way as the singer for Motion City Soundtrack, when he belts out the song “The Future Freaks Me Out”. I sometimes am scared of the future, especially of journalism. To know that the cold hard facts may one day be written by robots, as they will not be biased. They can just write the cold hard facts, from their cold hard hearts. But they will never be able to have an on screen presence like a human, or write with human interest in mind.

Ok, I have to move away from the topic of robots. But seriously, sometime it scares me to see all of the mediums condensing into one, and all of the convergence happening. Now I am glad that I get to dabble in all of the mediums and try them all, but with all of the jobs coming together, it also means less jobs. I am not scared of the way the trends are moving, but I am scared of getting a job in there.

I was up for an award for writing, so I guess my writing skills are improving. I love working with the TV stations and I love using my voice for the radio. I also have to say I love being able to blog and work on online journalism. I am glad that with the way journalism is evolving, I may be able to work back and forth and be a jack of all trades and a master of some.

I hope with the internet’s growing popularity that the jobs that are being cut back on in the other mediums can be made up for with that one. As I said, if the jobs keep getting less and less, I may have to work at the hospital the rest of my life, and not at a TV station as I would like.

I really think it all lies in the hands of this generation of journalists. As long as we keep doing a good job, there should be good jobs for us. People will always need to be informed. There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves