Graduates enter
employee 'draft'
I'm ready for the next step in my ca
reer. I've taken it one article at a time
through college, and now I hope that
hard work paid off.
See, Saturday is graduation. Sunday
is draft day.
Peter Hockaday
Today is Hockaday
Personally, I'm entering the sports
reporter draft, along with my buddies
Jeff and Adam. My roommate, Nate,
is entering the advertising draft. My
girlfriend, Emily, is entering the sports
marketing draft. I could go through
everybody, but you get the point.
For the last few years, the scouts
have followed us around, and now
they've ranked everybody from best to
worst. Jane is ranked sixth in the na
tion in the chemistry draft. John is
ranked 15th in the English draft, but
he doesn't know exactly where he's
going with that degree.
Rather than us sending applica
tions to them, these companies have
come seeking us. They've put in the
work, sending recruiters to campus to
assess our potential. They use words
like "upppside" and "real value." They
offer lucrative contracts and incentive
laden agreements. And the best part is
that we don't do any of the work to
get the job, other than sitting through
tons of contract meetings. Eesh.
Let me tell you, it's been nice having
the scouts with me for the past five years.
Sometimes it's a little added pressure.
Like that one time when a Thursday
night basketball game went into over
time, and I was facing deadline pressure
to write my story. When the scout
was sitting right behind me, watching
me type, that was a little unnerving.
But the scouts were there for the
highs, too. They were there when I
went to Sacramento for my first NCAA
Tournament articles, and they saw the
look on my face when I stepped out
onto the ARCO Arena floor. Right
there they knew, just as 1 did, that 1
wanted to be a sports reporter.
They were there with me when 1 be
gan covering the golf beat my fresh
man year, and they were there when I
covered soccer and track. They tracked
me through the years, and they knew 1
sacrificed weekends and holidays, that
I damaged friendships and ticked
people off, all for this job.
The scouts were with you, too,
when you spent Memorial Day week
end in your architecture studio. They
were there when you traded a trip to
Rennie's for a group meeting on a Fri
day night. They stood by as you
searched the Knight Library stacks for
that elusive book about Puerto Rican
wildlife and when you cleaned test
tubes in your biology lab at 11 p.m.
I have a pretty good sense of where
I'm going in Sunday's draft. I've had
some good talks with Wyoming's
newspaper of record, and I'm almost
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