Comments on: Sticking at it

By: petren

petren — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:39:14 +0000

Text being awaited with bated breath..

By: Pope

Pope — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:55:16 +0000

Yes Project London. This is rousing to say the least. I've had a few thoughts, conceptual more than content based, but we need a meet up to brainstorm. Expect a text.

By: petren

petren — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:32:34 +0000

Dave, very impressed with your new site, it is a great bit of work. I am taking the internship approach at the moment – although I have lost count of the organisations I have applied to now (all within a short space of time). I have my first interview tomorrow, so fingers crossed. I don't have shorthand yet, but I have been looking at teaching myself, yet at times I have convinced myself it is a skill of 'old' journalism (not that it isn't eternally useful) but I have wondered about how best to utilise my time (with regards to what I am learning). Then there is getting the full portfolio online, developing project london etc..

Please keep me up to date with what you are up to.

By: Dave Molloy

Dave Molloy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:17:00 +0000

Good stuff, Nick! I am in much the same boat myself, finding that despite my hard work and experience gained, the free market is tougher than I expected, and I am not sure where to turn. But we'll all find our feet one way or another. A postgraduate course in journalism is certainly tempting, but at €8500, it might well be better value to move to London and work for free! Like you, I am spending my time between paying jobs on improving my skills. I've knocked CSS off the list (I recently redesigned davemolloy.net from scratch, my first project of that kind) and am looking to move on to re-learning my forgotten shorthand, followed by audio and video skills.

Best of luck with your own attempts, and make sure to keep us updated.