I’m shocked that I ended up working as a journalist in our career path in life.
- I never went to journalism school or thought about it.
Instead did a short internship with a new station in our city. When I attended college, I had a loose major in communications and political science. Although it wasn’t like a journalism route, it’s easy to see how I benefited from that odd undergraduate degree. I like what I do on a weekly basis, and I enjoy meeting people from the community and telling their stories. Even though I’m sent on more jobs than most people can handle, there’s a reward in seeing your story featured in the paper. You also get to meet people and visit locales you never would have without being a reporter for a newspaper. One of my favorite assignments thus far was the trip I took to the CBD extraction lab about 50 miles south of our city. This corporation grows cannabis hemp strains, which only differ from normal cannabis in THC content. A cutting of hemp looks just like proper cannabis, but hemp has to contain less than 0.6% of THC to maintain that designation and be federally legal. This current CBD hemp corporation has a grow home next to their CBD extraction lab. Initially they grow the plants to maturity, and then they’re cut, trimmed, and dry cured. This extraction lab uses a potent ethanol mixture to extract the CBD molecules from the plant. I learned a lot from that project.