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30-Somethings let's talk |
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Paying your dues all a lie for some of us |
| Date Posted: |
05/16/2005 |
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At 25 I was told I was too young to work in a top 20. I remember the news directors and even talent in their 40s and 50s scoffing at me for daring to apply in a top market at age 25. (with 1 year of experience of course). Now 10 years later I see the same people who told me to pay my dues, retiring and hiring 25 year olds.
I don't think I'm the only 30-something who is jealous and angry that I was told to work my way up from market 165 to market 5 and now I see kids right out of college getting their first jobs in top 20s. So what about us 30-something with 10 to 15 years experience who were told to wait until we were about 35 or 40 to make it to the top?
Some say today it's all about the young and cheap, but hey some of us still working in medium size markets for pennies (between 30 and 40) would love to take a job in LA, Dallas or Atlanta for the same $25,000 you're paying that 24-year-old who was a producer for her college tv station. You know the one who can't read his name from the prompter, or that rich girl whose daddy bought her a house and new car right after she landed a job in a top 10 market.
I just don't get it. I've talked to other journalists in their 30s who feel the same way; that we've been passed over before we even had the chance to fill the retiring generation's shoes. It sucks! And you veteran journalists really let our generation down. You were jealous of us when we were young, yet now that your kids are in their 20s you've changed your song.
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