Thursday, October 19, 2017

On the road: let's study transport systems!

I don't like to write about things that I don't thought before. Now I'm trying to find a field where I would like to do postgraduate studies but I think they are so unusual and far from journalism career:

I would like to do the Transport Engineering master's degree because that's an area that I really enjoy to study. I already do some basic works about bus frequencies and routes in Santiago, but taking the course I would need to study about transport economy, density and even sociology applied to town planning (that's another area in which I would like to be!).


I would like to study that here in Santiago but also London tempts me a lot because of their great Transport For London system. I know that's a very different reality but I love it... at least through the pictures and documentaries I watch!


I would like to study it in a part-time course, because the rest of the time I would like to have on site work. For that kind of areas, you just can make a decision knowing about the ground where you are. Do you wonder why most of the PTUS (or Transantiago) failed? Yeah, that could be one of the reasons why.


I like to read books about transport, studies and even some works like the tender bases of Transantiago 2018, and since I know that I feel closer now than before of transport area, I know in the future I would be even more related with that :)


- Andrés

Thursday, October 12, 2017

I'm Andrés and this is BBC World News

It is difficult to explain this. I read a lot of comments about these guys: they earn more money than the journalists on the news gathering work, and comments like these, but well. I just know that I would like to be a news presenter as a future job, and it would be better if I can do it on BBC World News.

I'm in my fourth semester of the journalism career and I noticed that some of this kind of jobs fit better with the things I like to do indoor. I like to go outside and investigate about stories I like, but sadly I think -and the classes helped me to notice it- that the topics I like to research aren't attractive to the common media: transport, for example.

Usually, the TV anchors don't travel a lot but sometimes they do, specifically for these top stories. So, they are not traveling every day, but they do for important cases and that's interesting at least for me. Anyway, I would love to travel a lot.

I talked a bit about the salary, despite the salary they won it is not THE reason I would like to be a news presenter, it is known they win above the average of a journalist salary. I'm styuding journalism, I know, but this is one of the many areas where I can work.

I didn't say before, but this post would look better with this music:


Also I have to say that I think that's one of the reasons why I joined this career innocently...

- Andrés