Reading Orchid's journal

As you may possibly now, I work as a kind of "freelancer-journalist".
Yesterday, my contact at the paper phoned me at work to ask me for a job. Some months ago I've changed my attitude: Instead of always saying "Oh no, I don't wanna do that (Why the f** do I have to attend all the scout events and stupid brass band concerts??) into a "I take everything" because of the lack of money (In Zürich it's really hard to avoid the Bahnhofstrasse with two H&Ms and so on ;) and if you say no too often they won't offer you a job for a oo tlong time.
So I also took yesterdays job which consists in something that really scares me off but I just said yes knowing that I won't dare to phone and say "...err... no I can't do it."

So what do I have to do? It's really silly: In Liechtenstein their started the U19-EM. I don't know if this is interesting, I'm not at all into football. So they created something called "EM-Meile (EM-Mile)" in the capital Vaduz. For each participating country they chose a restaurant which is in these days offering meals and decoration like in the country their presenting. My job is to wander through those locations and interview the fans from abroad. Oh my God, I'm breaking my head on that since she called :/
How I am going to fulfill this task? I am somewhat scared! I am just the opposite of a good journalist who should be talkative, extroverted and always makes it to catch some good statements. Besides I don't look like a cool chick for whom every Italian fan would instantly snatch up all his english words to tell me something.
Will there come any fans at all?
Uh, this will be a sleepless night :P
I'm doing the wrong job but it's somehow still a job I'd really like so maybe I involuntary "throw myself in the cold water" 'cause I know I have to be able to survive things like that :)

"Sie wollen nichts anderes. Sie wollen kämpfen! Sie sind Soldaten! Fucking Wahnsinnige!" - Noel G.

This post was edited by Jaz on Jul 16, 2003.

Good luck! that is a cool job.:-)

fear is only in the anticipation. when you get caught in the excitement, all the fear will transform into confidence. many people, myself included, believe i'm a good speaker, but i'm always nervous before any speech, lecture, interview, or whatever. but once i'm in that situation, all of that changes.
by the way, i'm also an introvert.

hope you tell us NAOers later how it goes. have fun.:-)

“To God, there is no zero. I still exist.” Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man