Re(2): You know somethin I don't know. Posted on April 7, 2024 at 03:05:13 AM by Back to the Future
You have exactly the same problem, making assumptions because you don't know as well.
This is a room of anonymous people too scared to open up about themselves because they know if you find out who they are you, being the bully you are, will just jump them because you're a DOXXER. You were a marketer but yet you have a virtuallly invisible profile. Why is that? You do know that good talent doesn't have to look for work. They get noticed and stolen. There's a whole industy of recruiters who do that for a living. Like real estate people, they get paid selling people instead of houses. We've always been recruited by real estate people wanting us to put our houses up for sale. Or head hunters always staying in touch with their former placements, knowing how many people move around. They set up the interviews, tell ya about the employers, and if you move, they get paid.
If you arent solicited like that, you haven't been selling yourself. Lots of people network. For some reason KC isn't in the network. Many don't leave until they get bounced. And while most people do get bounced when they get too expensive they have friends in the network who get them jobs.
I made a comment in here and somebody thought I was a guy in Boise. Hope to hell Boise Idaho isn't considered upwards mobility in THIS market. Cheech. I jumped jobs once from doing what was fun to doing what wasn't quite as fun but I was better at it. Which is okay. So long as I kept trending upwards when my financial needs did.
A the turn of the century, I put up a career guidance website to fill a need becasue school counselors didnt know how to career counsel--they only knew how to help dumb kids fill out their class schedules.
I spent serious time researching industries and schools and mechanisms to help kids find out what their natural skills actually ARE. It was very popular...got a lot of school libraries in those early days asking me for rights to make it avail to their students.
In the assessment part of making career choices I said there are 3 things you need to consider before you start looking.
1. Find a job area you LIKE, that interests you.
2. Find a job area that your natural talents will make it easy for you to excel above most people.
3. Find a career with a future of upward mobility that also meets the financial needs you intend now and in 10 or 15 years.
IT wasn't all about just STEM occupations needing college (STEM means Science Technology Engineering and Math) But also tips looking for careers that are in their infancy and will grow, not be in the waning years of their existance.
Broadcasting fails in that last one and I knew it 25 years ago. This would be a bad time to get into it and expect to stay in it until you retire after 50 years in the workforce.
IT is getting harder and harder to ascertain future needs because technology innovates so quickly. File Clerks disappeared one day when database management software was rolled out. And when computers developed WYSIWYG (What you See is what you Get), that was the end of manual graphic arts and all the industries that supported people who created with their hands. Huge industries disappeared as fast as leather saddlemakers and livery stables built around horses and wagons.
Same happened in air travel, communications, shipping goods, and now RETAIL. This is not a good time to invest your life savings in that small retail store you always wanted to open.
Remember when out of work deejays, a few even in HERE, started radio streaming services. THey never did catch on because VIDEO killed the radio star and they just didn't want to learn video, I guess.
High schools should have a whole course in career planning and spend time teaching people to read futurists views of how to learn where we're going before we get there.
Good luck you youngers just getting into local affiliate TV! Get your skills in television but make damned sure you are also an expert on internet trafficking because the internets already fast enough to carry real time video. And the industry has already been Walmartized when the FCC decided big companies are free to buy up as many markets as they could afford. Remember when KUDL was just a little tiny shack in Johnson County? Kinda like The Wolfman's part in American Graffiti. Yeah, those were fun days but they coudln't support us all. Now we can build our own playlists or get AI to do it for us on the internet. I dont think the kids will ever be back to radio. I woudl suggest those who learned how to anchor news find a new line of work to start building. Have you watched Spectrum 1? Its better than ALL the small town TV stations whose talent are all overweight and fresh out of school. Replies: