Tenealia Grade 7 Massachusetts A. Tenealia, My favorite thing about being a reporter is being able to learn about the clever things people invent and the creative ways they organize businesses to make and sell their inventions. I meet people who are having a big impact on our lives and get to ask them questions. They don't always give me helpful answers, but even that is interesting. Sometimes what people do not say is as interesting as what they do say. Most of the time, the people I talk to are not that famous, which is fine with me.
Celebrities tend to be boring in real life.
Writing the stories based on the information I get is almost as much fun for me as asking the questions, but it can be very hard, especially when you do not have much time. Don't think about being a reporter if you don't like writing. Yes, of course there were advantages and disadvantages when I started on my path to a career in journalism. My biggest disadvantage was that I did not know anyone who ever made a living writing. Such a thing was the stuff of television shows, like on the old Patty Duke show.