They say if you love your job, you\u2019ll never work a day in life. Well, \u201cthey\u201d can shut up because I don\u2019t want to hear about acute semantic vagaries. \u201cThey\u201d might as well just tell me \u201cif you\u2019re happy then you won\u2019t be sad,\u201d and since everyone, ideally, gets a job, I think I could\u2019ve pieced it together from there.<\/p>\n
Now that I\u2019ve ripped this adage apart for no reason, I\u2019d like to talk about how I FINALLY love the \u201cjob\u201d I\u2019m doing. My job encompasses all of the things I do as a member of the Boston University community. I have an actual paying job at admissions, but I am also a member of The Daily Free Press, a writer and actor on BUTV, and an academically overloaded first-semester senior. As most students are at this university, I am too<\/i> busy, but because I finally enjoy each of the things I do, I am no longer bothered by losing sleep and spending a majority of my time doing \u201cwork.\u201d<\/p>\n
My first two years at BU were spent working as a writer and editor for The Daily Free Press. While I absolutely loved the people I worked with and the ultimate purpose of our operation, it gradually became evident to me that journalism was not my forte. I finished my tenure on the editorial staff at the FreeP, and have since been working as a member of its Board of Directors. I enjoy this position much more because it allows me to help those who are sure they want to become professional journalists follow the proper path and obtain the best skills and experience. (The greatly reduced time commitment and distance from the daily news grind is nice too.)<\/p>\n
In terms of my coursework, I finally love every second of what I do. Previously, I was taking too many classes on literature that bored me. Now, in my final English course toward my dual-degree, I\u2019m focusing on the works that I love most. I\u2019m also no longer taking prerequisites in COM and have been able to focus strictly on screenwriting this semester. Latin is still hard as hell, but it\u2019s oh-so-worth-it.<\/p>\n
At work for admissions, there\u2019s nothing more enjoyable than sitting down with a nervous prospective family, dispelling their fears about the vastness and open-endedness of BU, and having them stay in touch with updates on their application process.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always had dreams of becoming the next Tina Fey (what), but I was never able to inject myself into a setting that allowed me to work with television, as an actor, or even on comedic writing. As a film and TV major at BU, the opportunities were staring me in the face with BUTV, but I always felt too overwhelmed by other \u201cwork\u201d to take that step and join. This year, I finally became a writer for a comedy show, and as of about 15 minutes ago, I\u2019ve also been chosen as a main actor in a brand new series! (Pals & Friends, shameless plug.)<\/p>\n
There\u2019s simply something gratifying about having sufficient experience to pass on good counseling to newcomers, whether they\u2019re incoming COM students, eager young journalists, or future BU freshmen. It\u2019s the best way for me to identify that I\u2019ve actually done things here. And hopefully by the end of this year, I\u2019ll have a nice portfolio of critical and televisual \u201cwork\u201d that just might thrust me into bigger and more Fey-esque endeavors. It took me four years, but I\u2019m finally happy and not sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They say if you love your job, you\u2019ll never work a day in life. Well, \u201cthey\u201d can shut up because I don\u2019t want to hear about acute semantic vagaries. \u201cThey\u201d might as well just tell me \u201cif you\u2019re happy then you won\u2019t be sad,\u201d and since everyone, ideally, gets a job, I think I could\u2019ve … Continue reading Tyler: Being Happy and Not Sad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}