Journalism to be or not to be ?

After studying journalism and media for roughly eight months now, my perceptions of what a journalist really is have completely changed. Journalism appeared as a career that was simple and straight forward - finding a story, writing about it and sending it to the printing press. Now I discovered it's that plus a hell of a lot more. After job shadowing at the Cape Argus for a week and getting the chance to experience what it is truly like to be a journalist - including a journalists diet of caffeine and cigarettes, I realised that most journalists are so passionate about what they do to the point where they will do anything to get the story. I have always wanted a burning passion towards something, I finally found it when my first article was published for the world to read. Journalism is not the most appealing job in the world, now that I have a grip of the nitty gritty stuff in journalism I still doubt whether journalism is my true calling even though I experienced a few sparks of passion. I know I got to hurry up and make a decision.