Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
At that age it's far more important to decide on your first shag. Don't settle for the spotty girl with the glasses as you'll always regret it.
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Cricket journalism- How much do you have to know?
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At that age it's far more important to decide on your first shag. Don't settle for the spotty girl with the glasses as you'll always regret it.
Craig
World Traveller
Haha I know what you mean. I only decided what I wanted to do 8 weeks ago, and now that will soon change.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
You should always aim high. Just don't waste time and effort pursuing a near-impossible dream and end-up being in a worse place because of it. You're better aiming for a high place which you have a realistic prospect of getting to.
And remember, too, that the days of jobs for life are gone.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Because once you've had scabies you can't un-have-had-it.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I see - I do have another question but, on reflection, happen I'd best leave it for now
My recollection is that when I was 14 even the spotty girls with glasses didn't want to know - in view of what you say I'm glad I stuck to reading Wisden and Penthouse, tbh
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, GCSE options aren't all that important though. The vast majority of A Level courses can be taken even if they weren't suddied at GCSE, History for example. A level choices are a lot more important though, for instance half of the science courses aren't available because I didn't take Chemistry. Why my school thought putting History and Chemistry in the same block, when upwards of 20 people complained about the clash, I have no idea.
Fourteen is a fine age to pick up an avocation. Given that you're stuck for a few years, in most cases, with the vocation of going through grade school and advanced education any way.(Asians on this board will probably take that for granted)
Avocations have a way of turning into vocations based on your ability and of course luck. I guess that's what people are suggesting with blogging etc.
I agree with Richard that cricket journalism is too dicey to be a vocation - thinking about it for 10 years is not going to change that. But you can choose the avocation route to shoot for the stars. There are examples of success (I think both Zaheer Khan and Anil Kumble were well into their engineering degrees till it became apparent that there was a better calling for them. Manish Pandey only last year decided similarly, or so he said. Ditto Albert Einstein, if you want an example from a different field.).
You'll have to work much harder this way, but that shouldn't faze most people truly motivated to set their sights high.
Avocations have a way of turning into vocations based on your ability and of course luck. I guess that's what people are suggesting with blogging etc.
I agree with Richard that cricket journalism is too dicey to be a vocation - thinking about it for 10 years is not going to change that. But you can choose the avocation route to shoot for the stars. There are examples of success (I think both Zaheer Khan and Anil Kumble were well into their engineering degrees till it became apparent that there was a better calling for them. Manish Pandey only last year decided similarly, or so he said. Ditto Albert Einstein, if you want an example from a different field.).
You'll have to work much harder this way, but that shouldn't faze most people truly motivated to set their sights high.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
The stars tend to be a lot further than the Moon.
BTW, for anyone interested, I'm no longer at all interested in a career in cricket journalism.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Depends where you are tbh
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
I am shooting the messenger so to speak.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Singing too-ral-li-ooral-li-addityIt's not what you know; it's who you blow.
Peter Roebuck to confirm...
Singing too-ral-li-ooral-li-ay
Singing too-ral-li-ooral-li-addity
He's ended up in ......................
wfdu_ben91
International 12th Man
And fair enough. Why should some no-namer get their opinion publically published?
All fair in discussing the game and your opinion on a forum and what not, but only sportsmen that have played their respective sport should get the chance to voice their opinion publically.
No one on cricinfo who hasn't played International/State cricket deserves to be a cricinfo journalist. Sammit Bal and Christian Ryan both have mediocre cricket knowledge but they get to write on cricinfo. It's ridiculous.
I'd laugh if I were someone who averaged 55 in 100+ Tests with the bat and then at the end of my career, my career was completely analysed and publically overlooked by some no-namer who never came close to playing International cricket.
Fair enough for fans to discuss it on forums and be as critical as they want, but none of them should get the opportunity to spray International performers on well-known media sources such as cricinfo. I'm as critical as I want to be, but me or no one else who hasn't played high class cricket deserves to have their opinion voiced because it's as irrelevant as anyone else's.
wfdu_ben91
International 12th Man
He'd know a hell of allot more then any of the current cricinfo journalists. Rather listen to him then an idiot like Ian Chappell.
