I do now understand what it is like to have someone be coming after your job. And it doesn't exactly feel great. In fact, it's nothing less than terrifying.
The day after the election, the flags came up and cheering started.
It was weird that you could almost see it in the way people were carrying themselves and just in their overall attitudes toward life.
Read MoreThe job of the American press isn't really to cover what people want to see, though sometimes it pleasantly works out that way. It is their job to ensure that public officials are being held accountable, and let's face it, Trump needs an army to make sure of that (something he still hasn't learned even almost a year into his presidency).
Read MoreWhatever you think of that is your opinion. But, while you are at an election watching party, or just sitting at home watching results trickle in, and believe me, this time they really did trickle in, and slow as ever, reporters everywhere were sitting in front of a computer screen trying to decide when to call their candidates.
Read MoreThe weather forecast for Saturday calls for mid-80s. Some feel this is the perfect day to watch a shootout at high noon to celebrate Gillette's 125th year, and some, like me, are going to take to morning to sleep in until 8 and then organize life. And others, well others feel it is the perfect day to burn a copy of the Quran.
Read MoreAt that point I felt like I was right on the cusp of getting this job, but there was something more that I felt I needed to do. I offered to come up to Gillette and see the town and meet her personally.
The Monday of my last finals week ever was probably filled with the most stress I had that week: and it wasn't preparing for the tests I was soon going to have to take — because I really only had like two exams that week. It was this last interview that I thought would be the only possibility of a job offer, and that conversation just happened to be during finals week, a mere six days before graduation.
Read MoreEveryone's probably heard that there's a fine line that journalists walk between doing their jobs and getting too involved in their stories.
Everyone's probably heard that journalists have to "have hard shells," that "we just move from story to story" and "that we don't really care, we're just focused on making deadlines."
And that's partially true. Good journalists, in my opinion, need to try to be as empathetic as they possibly can, but there comes a point when we have a job to do.
We have to write.
Read MoreEverybody who knows me real well will tell you that I have have a 5-year plan since I could probably talk. Those who know me will also tell you that I work hard to get what I want — hence the triple majoring and two jobs business of my college career.
Read MoreLet's talk more! Email: meganrosefischer@gmail.com
