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Nastasia: I always wanted to be a journalist, I think because I ask too many questions, I want to know things about people,
Nastasia: I have a way of finding out things about people even when they say they don't want to tell me,
Nastasia: umm, I generally find them out and get them to spill the beans.
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Nastasia: In Year 10, I chose to do a VET course. It is basically a TAFE course that I did while I did my HSC.
Nastasia: So I kind of, doubled my workload, doubled my, doubled my stress but it all worked out in the end.
Nastasia: Ah, basically, doing the TAFE course meant that I could do a Certificate III in Entertainment Productions and Live Events,
Nastasia: ah, as a backup if I didn't get into university. So, by the time I finished Year 12,
Nastasia: I had an HSC and I also had a Certificate III which meant that one year at TAFE would have given me, ah,
Nastasia: One year of TAFE after the HSC would have given me enough credit points to then transfer into a university course.
Nastasia: So, although at the time it was really stressful and a lot of work, ah, it was really valuable in the end.
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Nastasia: I had to substitute a lighting component of the course and to do that I decided to take up a
Nastasia: voiceover course here at NIDA and also a sound design course.
NIDA staff/Nastasia: [How are you? ] Good, thanks.
NIDA staff: Good, how did you go from last week with your preparation for today?
Nastasia: Really well, it was fine.
Nastasia: Working here is amazing. It is like another world of creative arts and it really was a chance to meet
Nastasia: other people and learn from some of the industry's best.
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Nastasia: A day at university for me is, basically, catching a train and getting off at Central which is
Nastasia: absolutely chaotic and walking to university.
Nastasia: I use a cane, um. Then when I get into a lecture where there's probably five hundred people
Nastasia: I have a note taker who actually sits next to me with a laptop and takes all the notes for me.
Nastasia: And then in a tutorial I take the notes on my own laptop.
Nastasia: It's really, really difficult.
Nastasia: And, sometimes, really stressful to the point where, I don't know why I'm doing it but
Nastasia: then I think to myself, oh but, every week you look so forward to
Nastasia: going to journalism that I think, yeah, that's what I'm doing it for.
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Nastasia: In terms of support services, into choosing what I wanted to do and where I wanted to do it,
Nastasia: careers advisors definitely played a huge part in that. I um was able to do a lot of counselling with them
Nastasia: in terms of, you know, sitting down and talking about skills and attributes that I already had and skills that
Nastasia: I'd need to develop in order to be successful in the job and have a really successful career.
Nastasia: Um, work experience was the most important and is the most important, I think, for everybody to decide what they want to do.
Nastasia: I was, I did a hundred and twenty hours between Year 11 and 12 and I went to places such as SBS Radio
Nastasia: and Television, ah, OK magazine, the federal publishing companies,
Nastasia: all really just companies to do with the media.
Magazine editor: We've got Nicole Kidman on the cover and ah, we did a six page feature with her actually. It was really good.
Nastasia: My experience with OK magazine has been really, really fantastic.
Nastasia: The people are lovely and I have been able to really work on my writing style in terms of magazines.
Nastasia: It's quite different to a newspaper style and ,um although it might seem easy when you read it..
Nastasia: I think to construct it, it, takes a lot more creativity and you've got to put so much more energy and
Nastasia: you've really got to project that in your writing and um I've found that that was one thing I really need to work on.
Nastasia: So, um, it's been a great opportunity to do that, here.
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Nastasia: In terms of, also, support. family plays a huge part, I think. They were just always encouraging me
Nastasia: to definitely just do what I wanted and they were very supportive.
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Nastasia: I was really sure about what I wanted to do and I think I'm one of the lucky ones because I think
Nastasia: think it is the hardest thing when you don't know what you want to do.
Nastasia: But it's normal and I think I was the exception to the rule because there are so many people
Nastasia: who don't know what they want to do.
Nastasia: But I think, unless you get out there and unless you see what really goes on, you can't decide.
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