Work-Laptop-Journalism

When I was 14 I started to work at the mall. I had to look after little kids in a gym for children. They didn’t pay me good money (at all), but I saved all of it to buy my own laptop (and a ticket for a concert). I loved it, because it was product of my work and gave me freedom to write personal thoughts.

Since then, I’ve always worked to get presents to myself and don’t be a pain in the neck for my parents with money stuff.

That laptop, my first laptop, dead when I needed it more: when I was applying for Journalism. How was I going to study and write all I had to write without it?! I wouldn’t have survived too long.

That situation motivated me to make money selling some products and now I’m happy because I made it: I made money enough and I can be a (sort of) journalist with more commodities. 

The perfect choice

When I was in school, I enjoyed almost every class I had… except for Physics. So I had many options to decide what I was going to study at college. Since sixth grade, I thought about studying vet, law, kinesiology, publicity, gastronomy, and economy. I was a good student, so I was free to choose, but my parents preferred that last option.

When I was in freshman year, my love to humanistic subjects was evident; I loved writing, I liked reading, I was very interested in History class and speeches never were a problem for me. So, of course, everybody supposed that I was going for the Law School.

I was a junior when I decided to tell my family the career I’ve always liked, because gets together everything I enjoy doing and what I’m good at: Journalism. They support me from the very first day till now and I'm sure that I had the perfect choice

20 years in a hundred words

My name is Camila Magnet Morales. I was born on 24th June 1996 in Santiago on a rainy Monday morning. Three years before me, my sister Cecilia was born. We have a brother too, who’s 38 years old.

Our parents are divorced, but they do just fine… we always live special occasions together. When my mom left our home in Peñalolén in 2014, we adopted a little dog, Odín, who’s another family member for all of us.
I studied in Pedro de Valdivia School... a PSU's trolls industry. In that time I loved basketball, but now I practice yoga in my university. 

Today, 20 years later from that rainy Monday morning, I study Journalism, and I’m just where I wanna be.