Hello all, and welcome, to the little journey that will be Ben for Hack.
What is this, and what is it all about, I hear you ask? Well my friends, it is my plea to the ABC / Triple J to hire me as one of their Cross Media Reporters…to work on Hack.
Hopefully, if you are reading this, you at least know what Hack is…if not, I will recapitulate. Hack is a daily (well, Monday to Friday) half hour radio program that delivers (and now I quote from the Hack website), “the most relevant stories of the day from the unique - and often surprising - viewpoint of young Australians”.
Where do I fit in? My name is Ben Judd; if I want to sound professional (and I should for Triple J) I call myself Benjamin. I’m 23, and have recently graduated from a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
See where I’m heading with this? Hack wants relevant stories told from the viewpoint of young Australians, I’m a young Australian that is trained in telling relevant stories…and I can do that in three languages to boot (you’re meant to show off when attempting to woo an employer, si?).
Hack wants reporters, and I want to report. But why am I the best person to do that? My simple answer would be that reporting is my passion. Telling stories and being a journalist is what makes me happy. I am hungry to do this, and in my experience in management, the person that is hungry and wanting to prove, him or herself, is the person you want on your team. I want it, and I will work until I get it and it is that drive that will get stories told.
But how exactly do I get there? Well, of course, my first thought was jump on the pop-psychology bandwagon of 2006/07…and visualise. Yes my friends, we’ve reached The Secret. I personally, have never read The Secret…I tried to read it in Spanish but I lost interest, and now I have digressed. I do however, have a vague enough understanding of it from Oprah, and thought hey, this could work for me. The secret, I am told, will change my life. Great, I want to be a super sleuth reporter with Triple J...currently I manage a retail store…that’s a life change. The Secret fits the current scenario. But how exactly do I get there? Well, according to The Secret, I visualise it. Ok, check, I’m visualising…funny I’m not in the ABC studios. Damn you el Secreto!
Oh wait, Oprah told me there was more to it than that…I’m guessing this is where I come in. I visualise it, and then I go out and achieve it. Visualisation alone is not enough, but my aforementioned drive and determination seem like they could be important factors here. I want to report, and I want to work for Triple J. This is my dream, and now I am going to pull my finger out (with that hunger and passion), and go get the job…and hopefully this helps.
On that note, I guess I need to get back to linking this all together, because I am kind of confused myself, and I’m writing all this…so I can only imagine how you feel. I am Ben. I want to work for Hack. I am perfect for Hack. How do I prove that? Telling you that I have drive, that this is my passion, that I want to report, that I am qualified to do this, that I’m as handsome as a young Bea Arthur, that I can speak three languages? No. This blog. Over the next seven days (aka when the application closes), I will be using this lovely patch of cyber-space to convince you, my friends, people I have spammed on Twitter, my readers, hopefully employees of the ABC and any person that randomly stumbles across this page, why Ben (that’s me), is perfect for Hack.
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