The World's greatest jobs?

I agree, I'd like to learn another language, did French & German to GCSE but only scraped through them & don't really remember much of it. I started learning Spanish, which is how I know a few words, but my teacher got taken ill after 4 lessons & I never got back into it.

I agree, I'd like to learn another language, did French & German to GCSE but only scraped through them & don't really remember much of it. I started learning Spanish, which is how I know a few words, but my teacher got taken ill after 4 lessons & I never got back into it.

Funny enough, I've did Spanish since I was 11 or 12 and have always loved it but I find myself wanting to learn Mandarin as well! The four most widely spoken languages in the world wouldn't be too bad on your CV! (Including English, Spanish, Chinese and Scouse! )

Civil Engineer. Best job ever, well I really hope it will be!

I see Spanish  is very popular in Liverpool.May I give up learning English and start learning Spanish?
Do u want to break my stereotypes that English are too lazy to learn foreign languages?
Coze English is international language.
English is the most studied language in Belarus. Unfortunately,this is a reason my students don't want to learn French

Am about to study Freelance Journalism


Freelance Journalism course early prep.
Posted January 8, 2008 by DM Osbon
http://sweetflag.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/freelance-journalism-course-early-prep/

Background

I love to write.

Ever since I began writing & printing fanzines in the late ’80s & early ’90s I have looked for ways to get my thoughts & feelings out to masses, although in the case of the fanzines it was to the music gig & festival goers of that time.

The fanzines gave me an opportunity to interview bands, review music & live events. It also taught me a valuable lesson that writing & publishing a fanzine required a lot of work but that work was the best fun I had ever been involved in.

Back to the present & this blog has been my best way to communicate my thoughts on topics to the most people I can for the past 6 months & I intend to keep writing here for a long time to come but when it comes to the education of the written word I believe there’s more I can learn.

Studying is my next obvious step & I hope it’s a step forward, away from the dead-end jobs I have had in the past.

Talking of jobs, my current vocation is not a career. I want to improve that situation & studying freelance journalism is my way to do it.

In my working life I have never had a career instead it’s been a variation of jobs leading to nowhere fast.

I am now closing in on the big “40”. I’ve been working for 20 years now & if I am to make a career for myself from something I love doing it has to be done now.

The time has come to stop procrastinating!

LSJ

The last couple of days I have been digging a bit deeper into the Freelance Journalism course I intend on starting this month.

I now have a copy of the syllabus for Freelance & Feature Writing which I will be taking at The London School of Journalism. The course takes roughly 12 months to complete upon which a diploma from the school is issued.

There are 12 lessons with 30 assignments to do which I have decided to take on-line rather than by post. Once I sign up for the course, which I’ll do the week beginning 14th January, I will receive the first two lessons; Starting Out & Readers and Markets. This  means I can then finish the first lesson send it off to be marked etc & begin working on the second lesson while I await for the first to be returned.

The school is well know for it’s distance learning & my tutor will be from a freelance background in an area I have decided to be involved in. I intend to cover sports, gaming & TV/Film if I can, as I know being adaptable in freelance journalism will bring in more work & more opportunities.

I hope also that it benefits this blog in the future too with better defined articles.

Future Posts

I intend to detail my course experiences here on Sweet Flag. This will help me maintain a record of how I approached the course but also it will keep me on the straight & narrow when it comes to keeping to the workload on the syllabus.

I hope it will be of some entertainment value to you the reader also & possibly be a help to others who maybe considering doing this course in the future.

Wish me Luck!

All the very best to you David on your chosen career.

Lots of Good Luck

Best of luck DM mate

Thanks guys...maybe I can put some Liverpool FC love back into the news

Thanks guys...maybe I can put some Liverpool FC love back into the news

A lot of people would love that! Not journalists mind.... :

Driving instructor you get to meet interesting characters everytime, however i'm not one.

Playboy Photographer.

Playboy Photographer.

I'll call that and I'll raise you Hugh Hefner.

Big brother you can see everything.  (Sophie aka Dogface)

I'll call that and I'll raise you Hugh Hefner.

CRK, that sentence puts some horrible imagery in my mind.