The Fourth Reflection

Back in July, I was having a really tough time finding the motivation to continue to go on with my career in local television. At one point, I told a few people that I should just quit my job and go back to school and get a degree and go work a 9-5 in a big office and that the year I spent working tv production full time would make for some interesting stories that I could share in passing with the people I’d encounter throughout the office of a real job, but were good for nothing more than that.

What ended up happening instead was I ended up staying with my tv job. And I kept working on getting better and I found more reasons to love what I was doing and I fell in love with tv production as a result of realizing that there is no coincidence that I ended up back in that industry

I’ve found myself remembering BY NAME a lot of the people who helped me get to this. In no particular order, people like Katelin and Nicole and Amanda and Julianna and Katie and Luke and Ava and Luke and Ed and Teresa and Sean and Jessica and Lexy and John and Damian and Molly and Riley and Jason and Brandi and countless other people who took a chance on me, helped me find the confidence to try something new, or just simply provided a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on or a positive affirmation or a packet of Vegemite (or a nice combination of those things)

I am currently the youngest director on the morning show (and somehow the second tallest). And I can continue to talk about the last year of my life at my real job, which also just so happens to be the real job at the place I started working at in June 2023. The job I dropped out of college for. The job I gave up so much comfort for. The job I became a morning person for. And the job I knew from the first week that I wanted to do for as long as I possibly could.