Busting ass and shutting up

var addthis_product = 'wpp-252'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};Took a run this afternoon, started thinking about a chat I recently had with a young journalist. He came to me seeking advice on how to make it. I’m not 100 percent sure what making it means, in a universal sense. Some people are rightly happy covering preps for the local weekly. Others have ESPN on Bust signs dangling around their necks. It’s all perspective. Happiness is the ultimate success. Contentment, too. We often forget that, in the name of high-profile gigs. As I’ve learned through the years, “high-profile” is overrated. Oftentimes I miss standing alongside a prep sideline, watching Yorktown and Panas battle it out. I digress. If I were to offer two bits of advice to the aspiring writing, it’d be this: 1. Bust ass. Work harder than the other person. Make the extra call. And the other extra call. And the other extra call. Also, be unconven...