Autobiography of Ji Xiaojun
cctv.com 07-15-2004 16:24
The first time when the idea of being an anchor or a host occurred to me was in my high school. One day my friends asked me 鈥 What would you like to be in the future? 鈥 a very commonly seen question in high schools. In response I said I wanted to be a TV host. When I said it, it was like a kind of response instinct, without any hesitation, which even surprised myself.
After graduation, I came a long way from Zhejiang province in south China to Beijing for my higher education in Beijing Language & Culture University. Interestingly, in the second year in the university, I was asked by the university to start up the radio service on the campus. And then in the third year I was invited by Beijing Radio to be a host of a call-in music programme. When I thought that鈥檚 the kind of job I was going to take when I graduated, I, surprisingly enough again, accepted the offer from the Ministry of Education. There I worked for nearly seven years as a civil servant, a life which is so different from being a host - a dream that I鈥檝e been holding since high school.
Then in 1998, I got a chance to do an MBA in the University of Nottingham in England. It was a one-year full-time programme. Tough, but interesting. Every day we were surrounded by jargons like 鈥榗ore competence鈥 or 鈥楽WOT analysis鈥. It seemed I was going even further away from being a TV host.
However you will never know what鈥檚 going to happen next. In 1999, I came back to Beijing. And not long after that, in 2000, I got an offer from CCTV9. After a long way around, I am back, back to my dream - I become an anchor.
In 鈥淣otting Hill鈥, Hugh Grant says, 鈥業t鈥檚 real, but nice.鈥 Now I鈥檒l say 鈥 It鈥檚 real, and nice锛
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Editor:Chen Source:CCTV.com
