What I want to do,

The target at the end of my education is to become a member of the press in any shape or form. I found out the stress and strains of the job in a local form last week attending 3 days of unpaid work at the local paper in Stoke.

Reporting on a high profile game is more difficult than you think, which is something I also found out in shadowing the reporters for the Stoke v FC thun game on Thursday night. I realise you have to be able to take in the in-depth detail of the game and put the structure of the piece together at the same time along with socialising with the local press officers and fans of yours who see it their job to distract you at any possible opportunity - it can't be easy!
Being a huge sports fan and enjoying my English at school is the general reason for aiming for the logical reason of the journalism category and really before the start of last week I saw it as a purely pleasurable experience. However, although it doesn't put me off at all  of sticking to my targets I see that in all forms - from local to national press - the task of producing various articles to a high standard and on time is a mighty fine product which generally we take for granted as mere consumers of the papers. I struggle with producing an article at this stage without the guidance of my dad or a teacher so this has really increased my respect for the guys!
From the reporters who I've met they all seem to ignore the pressure , which is clearly something I've taken in as I've watched them at work and they have the ability to switch on and off as they please, which is a talent in its' self.
So, I'll conclude here for now and say thank you greatly to the stoke sentinel and I realise I've got a lot of work to do to get where I want to be.