Simple advice, but good advice: Follow your passion

May 2, 2016 by jgordon@unitedmediaguild.org

Vancouver-based magazine journalist and documentary film maker Roberta Staley offered some great insights in an interview on the Canadian Media Guild’s Story Boards site.

Her advice for beginning freelancers really resonated:

“You have to work really hard. You have to be ready and expect failure. You can’t take it personally. You have to absolutely follow the stories and create the stories that you want to read that are not being created — that are not out there already. It’s such a cliche, but follow your passions. Create the stories — whether that’s video or whether it’s writing — go out and create the stories that are not being told. The stories that you want to read.

“Because you’ll get so much life satisfaction. And in the great scheme of things, being poor for a short period of time is not going to kill you.”