Salon
This journalism grad student in his 30s fears he's made a huge mistake. "On good days, it's pretty exhilarating to be able to learn about all different kinds of things," writes
Shivering Scribbler. "But on the bad days -- generally the days that involve any sort of uncomfortable questions, or even worse when I have to ask uncomfortable questions of a source I've come to like -- I just wish I could disappear, die, erase myself."
>> He's getting
lots of advice. Another shy person says: "In some ways this can be an asset for a journalist. When the subject of an interview sees me obviously struggling with a question, when I fumble and apologize and tell them I don't mean to be rude, it can soften them up so that when I finally do ask the damn question, they're less likely to blow up at me."
