Reuter 1st wk of real work

Work has began. Training, and the good days, are over.
It is, to put it mildly,
Competitive, scary, fast-paced, pressurising, challenging, interesting, unnerving.

Not very pleasant...
All at once, you realise the power of working in a real-time news org.
Everyth u send out, pictures or stories, has a far-reaching audience and immense impact.
There is absolutely no room for mistakes.
And no forgiving/forgetting either.
And we're constantly reminded that this is Reuters.
This is "as far as we can go in our journalistic careers", as my editor puts it.
"Stds here are absolute. Make sure you keep up."

We're constantly being watched too, by Reuters bureax the world over.
It is too scary a thought to describe further.
Yes, it is super unnerving working here.
I work on tenterhooks. One mistake, and I'm on the way out.
But Í'm alredi in, so I gotta make the most of it.

We're also constantly reminded of our 6-mth probation.
Passing it and staying on is certainly not a given.
I hate it when they remind us so.

But all in all, it's good.
I feel like i'm back in sch, cos I learn so much everyday fr all these great editors, photographers, sub-editors etc. It's like a huge real-time classroom.

Except we go to school from 11pm-7am.
That's my night shift for the next 2mths.
Oh well, it's not as bad as it sounds, really.