[SBE] defining broadcast engineering education

[Jeff Carter]

That's exactly what I encountered and what finally drove me back into
school.   I've got military and vocational/technical school training,
but it didn't seem to matter.

Seven years ago, I could get a job pretty much anywhere making $40K
but that was the ceiling.  I wasn't being considered for anything else
because I couldn't get past HR, and my experience meant nothing when
nobody was seeing my resume/application.

So, I lost it and enrolled in college at an ABET-accredited
engineering technology school.  With my experience level, I can apply
for and take the PE exam (I can get signed off by other PEs) so I will
probably do that while the math is still reasonably fresh in my head.

The question after that is "now what?" and which direction to go with
it.  It's sort of like that thing they do on TV to illustrate the lack
of a real plan:

1. Go to school.
2. ????
3. Profit.

Jeff

---- Original message ----

>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:46:01 EDT

>From: A9xw at cs.com

>Subject: Re: [SBE] defining broadcast engineering education

>To: sbe at sbe.org

>I went back for a BS in business management. In today's HR driven

>environment, not having a degree means your resume is not read. When I got in

>broadcasting in the 60's, all managers wanted was your FCC license

and some idea you knew

>your way around equipment. I have my DeVry certificate from 1966 which was

>plenty good then and part of it was FCC 1st phone prep (with radar

endorsement).

>I think the SBE has done a good job of replacing that with the certification

>schedule. But when you walk in with 40 years experience  you likely got to

>walk in for the interview because you have a degree in something.

Being a HSG or

>GED means nothing in the work world because the quality of HD grads is so

>low, many are functionally illiterate but got their "certificate of

attendance"

>for being there 6 years.

>

>Henry

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