RE: College radio talent

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

I've always said that a degree in Basketweaving gets one "in the door" for
most employment opportunities.

It shows that you can learn (It matters not WHAT was learned).

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Aaron
> [Bishop] Read
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:17 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: College radio talent
>
>
> At 02:38 PM 8/26/2002, Cooper Fox wrote:
>
> >It would kind of depend on what kind of college it
> >was...  Obviously(well, hopefully), the talent on a
> >broadcasting/commo college station would be better
> >than that on a biz/liberal arts college.
> >
> >Speaking of communications colleges...  How do you
> >ladies and gentlemen feel about them?  75% of the ppl
> >in the business that I talk to about them swear up and
> >down that they are a waste of time...  Personally, I
> >feel that the program I went through would have
> >benefitted from a more jam it in your face
> >attittude(sp?).  I enjoyed every minute of my college
> >experience but felt that much of what i learned was
> >just a rehashing of things that i had been taught in
> >my time in the biz back in high school.
>
> When I was at WBUR and freshly graduated from BU...I asked
> several Emerson
> grads who're BUR employees if they thought it was worth going to Emerson
> for a master's in radio broadcasting.  All four of them said I
> could spend
> $30000/yr to go there or I could make $26000/yr and learn the exact same
> thing by staying at WBUR.  I figured that was answer enough for me and I
> decided not to bother with Emerson.
>
> Another thing I've noticed over the years - and this is interesting since
> it's only been four years since I graduated - is that virtually no one
> cares about what you did while you in college.   I did some
> pretty serious
> stuff, most notably being project manager for moving the campus-only
> station, while I was an undergrad but that fact was near-universally
> dismissed until I tell people what it entailed and what specific work I
> did.  It's a near-universal truth; students get no respect.  Fairly or
> unfairly, it's the truth.   So I say if it comes down to working for four
> years at various stations...or going to a communications school...go for
> the work experience.
>
> OTOH...if you don't have a college degree, regardless of what the degree
> was in, that fact alone can and will disqualify you from many
> jobs - fairly
> or unfairly, it will do that.
>
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