[SBE] Industry retirement situation

[Jeremy D. Morris]

I had a problem with "I told you so" at my old station.  That's why I'm
no longer there.  I was dealing with a self-taught engineer who was our
station owner/GM (SCARRY!) who had no problem fixing his station with
Radio Shack adapters.  Having to nurse along over 30 Umatic decks,
airing programming on used eBay tape stock, and using Video Toaster 3.0
as your master control switcher had it's breaking point.

 
Jeremy Morris | Field Service Engineer/ACSR
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-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Dave
Dybas
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 12:12 PM
To: 'sbe member discussion mail list'
Subject: Re: [SBE] Industry retirement situation


It is one thing to be involved in the budgeting process but when all is
said
and done, it's up to management, sometimes at the Corporate level, to
approve that budget. Personally, I didn't enter into Engineering to
become a
financial diplomat...learning all the personal/people skills necessary
to
persuade management to spend money on the technical necessities. 

Honestly, if I possessed all those "people" and managerial skills that
others on this reflector suggest, and I enjoyed exercising them, I would
be
financially better off in Sales or Operations.

I think we're ignoring the 5 ton white elephant in the room, and that is
the
station manager. Until station managers learn to extend themselves and
learn
that communications with the engineer requires effort on their part as
well,
we will continue to have disgruntled engineers. 

Dr. Dave




Subject: Re: [SBE] Industry retirement situation

Well said, Henry, I know of several situations where management
does not let the Engineer be involved in finances, perhaps because
the Engineer has not demonstrated his competency in that area.
Perhaps because of the feeling that this is not - our - area.  In this
day and age, we need to acquire the skills that will permit us to
advance and these are often skill-sets that are non-traditional.

Clay Freinwald


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