Cool Damn OJT!
Before enrolling the first semester in my last year of college, I really had no clue of where would I be trained. I wanted to apply to DZMM. I preferred to be in AM station before. It was the lacking of time that pushed me to apply to a FM station. Luckily, I was with one of my closest friend and a friend whom I usually bullied. Haha! I was partnered with that thin curled-hair, bullied friend of mine.
We had so many memories in that workplace. That cool place. Literally and more deep in meaning. I myself could say that the on-the-job-training I experienced there and the two hundred hours I spent there really made me satisfied and happy. That statement was none of a joke or a “biased thing”. That was my point of view and what my mind and heart thinks and feels.
Paper works. Editing. Cooking. Typing. Monitoring. Once in a lifetime being in front of the console; but it excludes the commercial and I didn’t talked there. And the “top 1” thing that I used to do every night: assisting inside the DJ’s booth. That was the coolest part of my OJT.
Yes! Maybe if my experience would be compared to some of my classmates’ OJT, they practiced a lot more than I do on my OJT. But guess what; I just realized that we already learned what they are practicing so they couldn’t tell me that I learned less than they did. I suddenly remember what Sir Marky told us, “No books can fully explain how to be a successful media practitioner”. Practically, yes! “ibang-iba ang pinag-aaralan niyo sa totoong mundo ng Media”. Definitely true! My OJT may not be a pure practice but it doesn’t end there, my OJT was just another type of learning. Observing. Opening my eyes to the real world of media as those real media people live with it. Then, finally learn from it!
It’s not only about media or being in that world; it is also about reality of life and everything. I really learned a lot. I learned in a way that I am having fun at the same time. That moment before going to sleep, you still remember the fun and the different quotations you learned and not the fatigue of those seven hours. So different.