[SBE] Industry retirement situation

[k7cr]

Well said, Robert -

Seems that no matter what field we find ourselves in, when
things don't go the way we want them to, or changes are
headed our way....Some of our first thoughts are to fight
back or to feel that, for some reason, our field is the only
one.   When was the last time you saw a Radio/TV repair
shop?...Or a Service Station (with full service)...A tube-
tester in a Grocery Store.  Reel to Reel tapes in a station
etc etc.  These are all changes that we MUST adapt to
or, as the General said...We will become irrelevant.

My question to you is this - How can SBE, as an
organization of our peers, help those that are struggling
with this issue at this time?

As a person that sets at the BOD table, I'd like to hear
what you and others think.

Clay Freinwald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Combs" <robert.combs at cumulus.com>
To: "'sbe member discussion mail list'" <sbe at sbe.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SBE] Industry retirement situation



> General Erin Shenseki once said "If you don't like change, you are going 

> to

> like irrelevance even less". That is one thing that I enjoy about being an

> engineer, the ever changing challenges. Granted I am not an IT person, in

> fact I know enough to really screw a network up if I want to. But that 

> does

> not keep me from trying to learn. Radio today has changed so much within 

> the

> last few years, and it will have to continue this change to survive. Most

> corporate big wigs do not even call it radio anymore...it is now a CDS

> (Commercial Delivery System).

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of k7cr

> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:43 PM

> To: barryt at sbe.org; sbe member discussion mail list

> Subject: Re: [SBE] Industry retirement situation

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> IMHO, we in our little industry are feeling what many others, in other

>

> fields, have felt for a long time.   The bottom line is this - There is

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> nothing more constant than change !.   If change is a given (which I 

> believe

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> it is) then those that adapt to change will be spared, those that do not,

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> will not.  I've been in this business for some 47 years and over that 

> span,

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> I've seen a lot of changes !  Along the way I have also known those that,

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> for various reasons, were unable or unwilling to adapt and have left the

>

> industry.    To me, change represents opportunity.   This is again a basic

>

> concept that could be referred to as the survival of the fittest.

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> Clay Freinwald

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