I feel like every single one of my last few blog posts have been apologies and explanations as to why I haven’t been blogging much. I’m serious this time, though, full service resumes today.
Lot’s to do on the site; the Portfolio page hasn’t been updated since August and the CV and About page could probably do with a re-think too. I’ve also missed a hell of a lot of stuff I would have liked to have blogged about (more on that later) and I’m compelled to push this blog back in the originally intended direction (that being a chronicle of my experiences starting out in journalism and a rantbox on media and politics) – hence the chatter below.
So here’s to a return to blogging, finally…
So why have I been absent? Well as I mentioned, I went straight out of my time in the Sunday Business Post into Village Magazine for a 4 week stint. One week into that I was offered 2 shifts in the SBP until the end of the year, which saw me working Monday-Wednesday in the Village and Thursday & Friday in SBP. I was then originally supposed to be finished in the Village the week before last but was asked to stick around for another few days to work on some research I had started there.
So in other words, this is the first week I’ve had where I’m just doing the 2-days in the Sunday Business Post and I’ve finally gotten some (but not too much) time to work on my own bits and pieces.
So how was Village? Interesting. To be honest it may not have been my best move, simply because the shifts in the SBP were a priority for me and I couldn’t give the magazine my full attention. It was interesting to be in the same small quarters as the likes of Frank Connolly, Justine McCarthy and Vincent Browne although I unsurprisingly wasn’t lucky enough to actually work with them (or, for that matter, near them…), but still.
The worst part of the whole SBP/Village situation was the fact that while the SBP was a major priority I was still unable to devote nearly as much attention to it as I would have liked. As a result the last few weeks haven’t been nearly as productive as I had wished and I feel I’m capable of a hell of a lot more. Fingers crossed I can get back on top of things in the final 3 weeks of my stint there; so wish me luck.
Actually, forget about wishing me luck, just send me information on any great (and unreported) injustices in our society, any interesting goings on in business or any other worthy developments of any nature to my e-mail address (or call me). Uh… now I feel dirty; like one of those tabloid ads that say “We’ll pay you €250 for your story”, only I have no intention of paying you anything.
Seriously though, I’ve had a pretty amazing few months and things have been going much better than I could have planned for in terms of starting my career; I’ll discuss it more towards the end of the month but the scale of work, experience and opportunities afforded to me at the SBP has been superb. I’m not trying to suck up to anyone here, if I felt underwhelmed by my time there my praise would be notable by its absence, but it’s not often that you get chances like this so quickly.
So it’s onward and, hopefully, upward.