I basically want to go and work in the radio industry. I want to be eventually a radio presenter and that all started with my involvement with the radio station here at university because I'd never come to university with the intention of being a presenter and it was something that sort of came out of the blue.
I got involved with the sports team I remember and sort of volunteered to do my own show because I thought it would be good fun to just have me on the radio talking to friends and playing some music that I like to play. I never thought it'd go any further than that and then being on the sport team and just being able to talk about things that I, you know football that I just love to talk about and I talk you know all the time about it with my friends, why can't I discuss it on the radio? I feel I've got a fairly balanced opinion of it all and yeah, then over the three years here I think I just realised that I was quite well suited to it and that actually my passion was even stronger for radio than it was for theatre.
I understand that it's putting my parents through hell the fact that I've gone from a very dodgy job to get employed in and from being an actor to an equally dodgy position of trying to be the next Chris Moyles, not that that's what I want to be but it's something that they, you know, they've supported me throughout it really and I think it's what you take away from it.
But it's a strange thing to think about that three years ago I came to this university with aspirations to go and do Shakespeare and now I'm going away and doing a completely different job. I think it's just the fact that the Society here was, felt a lot more open and I think I just sort of grew into it. By the time second, sort of half way though second year, I did have a real sort of decision on my hands and it was strange to be thinking "I'm deciding my career when I'm not even, just about half way through my course."
But the fact of the matter was that I couldn't maintain my grades and my course and do work involved in the theatre societies or as much work in the theatre societies and do as much work on the radio. I was involved in, as I said, staging a play, that was in the first term of my second year and the second term of my second year I was involved in performing in a play and that was a sort of moment when I said "We have to work out, I have to work out where my dedication lies, where my future lies, what I want to do" because I was missing out on either rehearsals or on presenting shows.
I still maintain contact with the theatre society and I still went to see as many of their shows as I possibly could but I think I just decided that radio as a medium and presenting as a career was just something that came quite naturally to me which was rather unexpected and the fact that it was something that I never really felt was a chore.