ARDIANSYAH, Media and languages enthusiasts

Ardiansyah (27), who will graduate his master degree with english linguistics major from Atmajaya next month, is a content officer in Kompasiana since 2015. It is not his first time to work at the media company, he had worked at the Jakarta Post as a proofreader editor in 2012. Working at the Jakarta Post was interesting for him because he needed to work in team with some British native editors, but actually the Jakarta Post is a newspaper which use American style.

Working with native is one of the most interesting advantage that you will get when you work at media company which use english as their language. Besides, traveling is the other interesting advantage that you will get, as Ardi said “The most interesting thing when you work at media company, you can traveling for free. You can do your job while traveling”

However, working at media company has a difficulty (especially when you work at the Jakarta Post), you have to translate the news that you get in bahasa into english. It is quiet difficult when you can not find the right equivalent. For instance, like Ardi said he could not find the right word to translate “angkot” in english.

For some people who want to work at the media company, Ardiansyah has a good advice. “If you want to work at media company, you need to start to write from now and post it on several platforms. You can write anything you want, it can start from a simple thing like food review. It is really important for you when the interviewer want to know your quality in writing”

Ardiansyah also has a good advice when you finally get a job in media company, but you had the writer’s block and should complete the deadline “For instance, you have written a straight news and then you got the writer’s block, so you can divide that news into another news, you jump into someone's point of view (the victim point of view for example), so you can also write a feature news from that.”

Media companies were not the only place that he had applied to. With influnced from his friend, he tried to work at Bank DKI in 2013 for 2 years. 2 years were enough for him to realized that being a banker was not his passion because he found out that his education background was useless when he worked there. So, he quit that job and expand his experince in media as content officer in Kompasiana since 2015 until now.

Talking about his education background, he had graduated his barchelor degree with english major from STBA LIA. With his high curiosity in english, he continued his study with english linguistics major. He said  “I always got a bad score in linguistics, but it made me want to learn linguistics more. Unfortunately, I did not have much time to re-take the class (in STBA LIA), so I decided to take linguistic as my master degree”

Video games, musics, and movies were the things that made him interested in english. “I love to play video games, but I do not know how to play it, if I do not know what is the meaning of the instruction because I do not  have a large vocabulary in my mind and it is quiet tiring if I should check every single word in dictionary. I also like listen to musics and watch some movies without subtitle to increase my vocabulary” Ardi said.

However, english is not the only language that he interested in. Spanish and French are another language that he learned. He learned Spanish and French in 2010 from a tutor that he got from University of Indonesia. He finished the course for about 6 months, but it was quite difficult for him to speak Spanish and French with the right pronunciation because the tutors were Indonesian.

Being someone who work at media company is not easy for some people, but for Ardiansyah is different. Media company is like his world, even when STBA LIA offers him to be one of the lecturer there, he still can not decide because he really loves his job. He really loves to practice all the knowledge that he got and media company is the best platform to explore his knowledge.