[SBE] Career advice needed

[Crum, Kate]

Hi Russ,
 
First of all, hope your surgery goes well. I hear shoulder surgery is a pretty long recovery. Since you'll apparently have lots of time for reading and a limited budget, you might ask broadcast engineers local to you if they wouldn't mind giving you their trade magazines after they've finished reading them. Someone else suggested reading trade magazines, and it really is a good idea. I know that we usually end up with three or four copies of the same thing here and we've been donating the old magazines to a local university. 
 
Good Luck!
Kate Crum, CBT 
Maintenance Engineer 
WPTD / WPTO Dayton, OH 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org]On Behalf Of Russ VanderHorst
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:28 AM
To: 'sbe member discussion mail list'
Subject: [SBE] Career advice needed



Good Morning All,

I am in need of some career advice. My name is Russ Vander Horst, and I was the recipient of the SBE Greenberg scholarship for 2009.

Because of any accident, my right shoulder rotator cuff was damaged and required surgical repair back in March of this year. Healing is progressing, but it will probably be another couple of months before my shoulder is back to normal. After an appointment with my orthopedist, he believes it is in my best interest to have surgery on my left shoulder as well, which will side line me for another few months. 

I am enrolled in World College working on my B.E.E.T., specializing in broadcast engineering, and am doing very well with it; however I am a believer that you can only learn so much from a book. I "need to get my hands dirty" and do an internship, but this is not going to be able to be done for at least another 6 months. 

I would love to read the broadcast engineers handbook, but right now just can't afford it...Also I have been downloading the FCC rules concerning TV, and should have this done in the next couple of days, which I figure will at least help me understand the guidelines I will eventually be working under.

What I am curious about is what other aspiring broadcast technicians would do in my situation to promote their learning while unable to do an internship (which I would do unpaid of course). Are there web sites that I can review? Does anyone have a copy of the broadcast engineer's reference book they would be willing to part with for a reasonable sum? Etc. 

 

Any advice that anyone is willing to give would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks in advance J

Russ Vander Horst , CBT

 

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