ABSTRACT
This chapter offers Mila Sanina's encouragement and wisdom about the path to being a reporter, a broadcaster, an editor or a media professional. Sanina was lucky to get a decent school education and learn English. Her only misfortune was to have been born in the Soviet Union and raised in the independent country of Kazakhstan, a country where being a journalist is a life-threatening profession. Before the opportunity of being a journalist materialized for her, she tried to abandon that idea altogether, several times. But when one go against their true nature, he/she become miserable. Sanina loved the school and still found ways to write about policy with a journalistic eye. She knew the joy of being a reporter, the joy of playing with words, talking to people. She loves her work and loves how every day she challenged to keep her mind open, to keep her notebook nearby and always have a pencil that works.
