Yes! Yay! A post where I talk all about myself and what I love!

I have an incontrollable love for the medium of radio. I love sound, and music, and the freedom that radio gives producers to explore these tools to create meaningful and inspiring audio pieces (unless you’re listening to commercial radio in which case nothing is meaningful and everything is crap).

I’ve known since primary school that I wanted to work in the media industries; until about year 10 I had my heart set on a career in journalism. As I slowly learnt more about the broad media landscape I began to see a lot of potential for creativity and freedom in radio production, and since this realisation I’ve never looked back. In year 10 I completed a week of work experience at the Australian Radio Network in Richmond which just completely solidified my career aspirations to work in the industry.

I spend a lot of time volunteering at SYN, working on a variety of shows ranging from newsreading, to a late night show about sex and relationships, to a show I produced and presented all by myself about the current happenings in popular media. Many friends, family and peers struggle to understand why I would spend countless hours contributing to these shows unpaid, but to me it’s just like playing your favourite sport or playing in a band. It’s my passion.

For the moment I have no particular aspirations or predictions for my professional future, rather I seek to continue to place all my focus and energy on gaining invaluable experience in community radio in order to (hopefully) prepare me for a happy career.