[SBE] Industry retirement situation

[Gary Kline]

Perhaps the NAB would make available to the SBE a video of the management
session.  That video could be made available to everyone on the SBE web
site.   



-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Robert
Combs
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:53 AM
To: 'sbe member discussion mail list'
Subject: Re: [SBE] Industry retirement situation

I, for one, think that the SBE is a great organization...even if I don't
agree with everything that comes out of the head office. There are some
great books available through the book store that can help with our
continued education. 

At some point, we as engineers have to take responsibility for our own
actions and improve ourselves. One way is by learning how to adapt to
today's "corporate world". I can tell you it has been tough for me to do
that and I still have to struggle sometimes. Even at 40, I tend to have a
temper like had in my 20s at times. 

Most of us are Managers now, not just engineers, and that means we need to
have not only managerial skills but also proper "people skills" and social
skills. We can no longer hide in the shop or at the transmitter site. We
have to be available for every department in the building and need to know
how every department works. The bottom line is I was hired to do a job and
even if the job description changes weekly, I still have a job that I am
paid to do. If I don't like it, I have two choices...deal with it or change
jobs.

The program that is coming up at the NAB about learning how to talk to
management sounds like it will be a very good start, but I agree that I will
not pay the high NAB package price just to attend. I think it should be a
part of the SBE program for the week or at least available to SBE members. I
also think some course programs or books in time management or just
management in general would be a good thing.

Robert Combs
Market Chief Engineer
Savannah, GA



-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of k7cr
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:07 PM
To: sbe member discussion mail list
Subject: Re: [SBE] Industry retirement situation

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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