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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Dollar Shave Club what's up everyone welcome back their pursuit of rented riffs I'm Marisa John rain just to show right talking about anything that's going on in my mind over the past maybe two to three years even up and doing advice videos kind of sporadically every maybe three to four months I'll put out a new video store trying to help the next generation tech reviewers or people much older than me don't want to get into this industry so I'm back with another episode and this question I get probably twice a week is and I'm middle school I'm in high school I'm going to college what should I study to try and get to online journalism so I'm going to try into that question style topic of this video might not be for everyone but if you've ever had an inkling a little tingling in your baby toe that you want to get into the online world and definitely give this video a watch I've answered ton of questions in the past about how to get gadgets to review our gadgets come from how to start off and tech reviewing that kind of stuff I'll put a link to the playlist down below we've got it up on the main youtube channel trying to go back and check out those old videos and see how young I used to look before we had a baby and that stopped sleeping so I still read every single question that comes in every single comment that comes in it's the TechnoBuffalo mail address in the contact us page on the forum I can't reply to all of them but I read every single one and overwhelmingly especially recently other than hearing something along these lines of John I'm in school I want to get into online journalism or the technology or something else what do I study how do I do it it's a new career so doesn't really sort of a set path for it I know some universities are surf starting to have online journalism classes but it's still really really new so for somebody who kind of just guessed it what to do let me tell you what worked and what didn't work so first the idea that you don't need school to be successful at least in my opinion is very very very false people always quote guys like Steve Jobs Bill Gates further success stories but what you don't hear us are the people I didn't you know become successful we always hear the successful ones but the thousands of thousand thousands that didn't you know go to high school or didn't finish middle school that kind of stuff you very rarely hear about or dropped out of college so I'm a big fan of education big proponent of education so the first thing I would say you don't have to get journalism degree study anything that's writing intensive creative writings can get you thinking it's and get your mind working teach you how to sort of interpret things differently to sort of look at everyday situation object news story and interpret it on your own this is this if you want to get into the writing setting we talked about video in a minute so anything that's very sort of creative writing heavy or writing heavy is a great way to go some of the liberal arts degree is like religion classics like I majored in I do history you can pick in journalism if you want I in glish is always a good one it's made you anything that sort of emphasizes creative writing also a hone your grammatical skills is a really good way to go you stop the advice for one quick SEC to give you some more advice if your dude or even a lady you know the buying razor just kind of sucks dicks got to go to the store you got to ask the person open the thing up for you or you got to get a little piece of paper and they go in the back key the razor just a whole giant pain in the ass and I hate pains in the asses so the folks at Dollar Shave Club have you covered and they made it way way way easier for you after all my razor works fine at that all this crazy rage of technology have gotten there now like laser pointers and little Baldy rollers so fortunately Dollar Shave Club made it way easier and it couldn't be simpler for just a few bucks a month Dollar Shave Club ships amazing quality razors and other bathroom things wrecked your house their blades are just as good as a big shape companies at just a fraction of the price so saving money is always good they've also got dr. 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