After spending almost two hours in temperatures below freezing, I have no doubt about it.
There are people here who have told me that they wanted to do one thing and ended up changing their major. Many college students change their major multiple times before they graduate.
Not me. Not this major.
I spent an hour and a half today around PNC Park shooting stand ups and reporting on a number of Pirates related subjects. It was 26-31 degrees and when I got back to campus, I couldn't feel my fingers. It's been almost four hours since and I still can't completely feel my finger tips. All I could think to myself as I watched the footage was Lanny Frattare's famous phrase, "There was no doubt about it," that he would exclaim after each Pirate's win.
After pulling every string possible and talking to every right person, I have no doubt about it.
After spending countless hours working and many less sleeping, I have no doubt about it.
I have no doubt about it.
"It," referring to my passion, my career, my future.
It's not far away and it's approaching much faster than I could have ever anticipated, and I can't wait. I don't know where I'll end up or what I'll be doing, but I have no doubt in my mind that I'm doing the right thing.
There are people here who have told me that they wanted to do one thing and ended up changing their major. Many college students change their major multiple times before they graduate.
Not me. Not this major.
It was fitting, considering I was just at Fratare's former stomping grounds.
I have talked to a number of highly respected journalists and broadcasters in the industry over the past week. A list that includes Dejan Kovacevic who, if you have never read his work, can only be described as phenomenal.
I have talked to a number of highly respected journalists and broadcasters in the industry over the past week. A list that includes Dejan Kovacevic who, if you have never read his work, can only be described as phenomenal.
I'm ecstatic to begin my career, wherever that may be. I'm ready, but then again I'm not.
I'm ready in the sense that I'm ready to get going. I'm not ready in the sense that I still have things to work on. I'm working on improving every day. It's the only way to do it. I can't watch myself on air without being critical. I never could. I could never listen to a piece of music that I performed, watch a show that I conducted, or a broadcast that I anchored without being uber critical of myself.
I still always watch and listen though. I do it so I know what to work on, what to improve. I do it to better myself and learn from mistakes that I didn't think that I made. From certain gestures that I make to certain words and letters that I pronounce. I know what I have to work on and I know that I will improve with time.
The biggest thing in my way are classes that seem irrelevant to me that are taking up a portion of my time that I'm completing busy work for. I feel like there is so much to do but very little time to do it in and that's the overwhelming part. I'm managing.
Thanksgiving break begins next weekend and I am having mixed emotions about it. I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my family more than anything. I worry that my time spent at home will be spent more on work that I don't have time to complete here, and less on relaxing and enjoying a break. A career in sports is accompanied by very few off days. Especially in baseball. I'm prepared for that, as dreadful as it may be on some days.
I have a long laundry list of things to do and papers to write. Yes, doing laundry is on that list. No I haven't turned my medium T-Shirts into youth smalls yet, and yes my white T-Shirts are still white.
I'm ready in the sense that I'm ready to get going. I'm not ready in the sense that I still have things to work on. I'm working on improving every day. It's the only way to do it. I can't watch myself on air without being critical. I never could. I could never listen to a piece of music that I performed, watch a show that I conducted, or a broadcast that I anchored without being uber critical of myself.
I still always watch and listen though. I do it so I know what to work on, what to improve. I do it to better myself and learn from mistakes that I didn't think that I made. From certain gestures that I make to certain words and letters that I pronounce. I know what I have to work on and I know that I will improve with time.
The biggest thing in my way are classes that seem irrelevant to me that are taking up a portion of my time that I'm completing busy work for. I feel like there is so much to do but very little time to do it in and that's the overwhelming part. I'm managing.
Thanksgiving break begins next weekend and I am having mixed emotions about it. I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my family more than anything. I worry that my time spent at home will be spent more on work that I don't have time to complete here, and less on relaxing and enjoying a break. A career in sports is accompanied by very few off days. Especially in baseball. I'm prepared for that, as dreadful as it may be on some days.
I have a long laundry list of things to do and papers to write. Yes, doing laundry is on that list. No I haven't turned my medium T-Shirts into youth smalls yet, and yes my white T-Shirts are still white.
I have always been told that if I love my job, I will never work a day in my life. If I had the opportunity to be blessed with employment in professional sports, as are my full intentions, I would never work even a second in my lifetime. The beauty of sports is that no matter what happens today, there is always tomorrow.
Man, am I excited. Man, am I ready. And there is no doubt about it.
Because, why not?
Josh
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