If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get I don't care if it's behind a camera on a TV set or on the moon.
Early on it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
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Travel provided many interesting experiences but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.