WHAT IS HAPPENING?

I started working in a radio station right from my internship days. I worked there from the second semester of my second year until the first semester of my final year. I had to stop because it was taking a toll on my health and school results. I did so many programs by myself and was so good at it. However, the first time ever I read news on air, it was a disaster, or was it the first time I ran a show all by myself? I almost had a heart attack, but subsequently, I found out that I was picking up and not just picking up, I was picking up faster. Most times, I had co-anchors; sometimes, it was just me, and I was doing everything perfectly.

Like I said, I stopped working there in my final year, first semester, because the stress was too much. In my final year second semester, my school went on strike because lecturers weren't paid and it lingered for two months and me as me are 🤣 I decided not to sit idle because I thought the strike was going to linger for long and I decided to go work in this other radio station and the took me to the Editors department. What do I know about news writing and editing? Nothing but I still stayed there even though I do not like it. I have never loved news writing and thus didn't even think about learning it, but here I am in this department, I just had to adapt and pick myself up, and with time, I was adjusting, but my mind was still in that studio.

After some days, I started sneaking into the studio to watch how they run their programs, and it was totally different from what and how it was run in the former radio station. Then my school called off their strike, and I went back to school after graduation. I came back to the radio station, and I was told I can't work now until after NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), but I can stay around and count my probation period from last year, when I was always around. I was cool with it, very cool with it and my sneaking continued until one day I was called in by one of the presenters to help her anchor a show, That day I was the co-anchor and the show was going on but I found it hard to flow everything was just so strange and stiff to me I tried to adjust at the moment but I just couldn't and it was not helping.

The show ended for that day anf that was when the saying"we need to learn, unlearn and relearn " came into play and I tried to look for other ways to upgrade myself, practiced at home a lot of times and still went back to work to do what was on my mind 😭 I felt so bad, this is I who ran shows for hours on my own and getting here I still couldn't do anything and I was frustrating. I think I need to go back to the newsroom. (I just sounded like trouble in "all the queen's men") 😔.
I still refused to give up and I stopped my mind from thinking this is a new radio station all radio stations are the same and I that was what I kept on saying until I was able to overcome my fears.
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