Let's Start at the Beginning
When I was in my late teens I went to university to study Broadcast Journalism. I loved it and hated it all at the same time. In actual fact I was just lost. I didn't know what I wanted and no-one could help me, not even myself. I am and always have been a creative that is just not creative and there was no place for that and certainly no support. I felt that I had chosen I output for my talents, but felt out of my depth and a failure when I tried. The feedback I got was it's not good enough. I didn't know how to be good enough. I didn't understand where the ideas came from. Once I had one, I did ok, but without enough of them I was just floundering. Floundering had been what I had done all of my life and university was no different. I was intelligent and hardworking, but without direction this wasn't enough. I needed a jumping off point. I was never the ideas man. When I told my tutor I was lost, she wrote me off. She delayed my work placement a year, stating I was...