The gold standard is one of those things that sound nice at first brush (keeping the same value for your money forever? Nice!) but then start to fall down in pieces when you start studying them from an economic perspective. I'm writing a thesis about Bitcoin based on a similar critique, actually.
And I love journalism! I love understanding and explaining things to people. Admittedly, the job is very swingy- we go from exciting moments when we are writing things at work to boring times in which we are just looking at the wires, even during the same day. But I have fun doing it, so...