Learning How to Speak...All Over Again

Every now and then, I get one of those teachers who goes off on a rant about how hard it is to make it in the real world. Hey, isn't this why I went to college in the first place? Isn't college supposed to ease the way and mmake my chances better at getting the dream job? Apparently not.

A couple pros from the History Channel came to my school yesterday (unluckily I missed the presentation). One of them, a producer, said how hesitant production companies are to hire people from the Media field. They'd rather hire a History major than a Media Communications major! Suddenly I'm wondering how fair that is.

But it isn't as much a question of fairness as it is personal motivation. Today in class, we had a test on the book Speak by Laura Halse Anderson. Good book, I recommended it in a previous blog. The main character's main struggle was to fin dher voice and finally speak out. The point of reading this book in a media course was...we have to do the same thing.

If you don't speak up, talk to the pros when you get a chance, or input your ideas you have no chance in the media field. You can't hope to be a lead animator or cinematographer without some communication skills, and I imagine this is true for other fields as well.

But hey! I don't wanna speak! I want to stay quiet and do my job. One of the fun things about being a cameraperson at a live auction was I could be quiet. Nobody would come up to me and say "Are you sad?" or "Why are you quiet?" because it was expected! And I have my reasons for not wanting to speak, as feeble as they are. I have a little issue with stuttering when I get nervous, as well as a slight lisp that gets more prominant when I notice it. These bother me so much that I want to clam up and never talk again. I hate my voice.

It looks like I'm going to have to learn how to speak all over again, because if I don't, I'll be out of a job in the future. I suggest the rest of you introverts try the same thing!