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| Topic | 87% of journalism majors regretted their degree choice. |
| codey 11/14/22 2:12:03 PM #37: | It's very difficult for us to find jobs. Scratch that. It's very difficult for us to find good jobs. I got plenty of $12/hr offers while job hunting. They were all at papers with very few employees where I'd be doing most of the work, breaking my back and getting paid very little for it. I ended up at local paper making $14/hr, and did that for nine months or so. In that time, 6 reporters left and it got down to two of us, and they didn't hire anyone new until right before I left. Now I work for a business journal and make around $60k/yr and supplement that with disability from the air force, so I come out to about $70k/yr. I'm lucky too. The good journalism jobs are very competitive, and I can't see myself staying in it for the long haul. Plenty of the PR folks I deal with now used to be CRE reporters like me though, and that's where I think I'll move next. Journalism to PR isn't an exact transferrable skillset like many think it is, but it is a lot easier if you report on a specific industry and nothing else like I do. --- *runs out of topic naked* ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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