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Journalism majors?
Anyone in here major in Journalism? I love writing and have been published in local papers (small and major). I have spoken with some editors, and it has definitely been suggested that Journalismis the way to go.
Any thoughts?
Re: Journalism majors?
I have a Journalism degree.
I teach Kindergarten.
However, yes a Journalism degreee can open you up to a world of opportunities. I worked for a Market Research firm doing database management and editing reports -- it was actually fascinating. My program required a lot of practical experienence and several internships. This made sure I had a feel for the carerr path -- which obviously wasn't for me.
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If you want to be poor and overworked, journalism is the way to go. That's if you can find a job at all
I have a journalism degree and have always worked in pharmaceutical research and love it. When I graduated in 2003 for a top 20 j-school, all jobs had 100 applicants for every position. If not more. And that was when the economy was good.
Now people in magazine and newspaper especially face layoffs, stagnant salaries and low salaries.
Quite honestly, I can't believe any currently employed journalists encouraged you to pursue this field.
There are still lots of opportunities to use writing skills, but often those skills should be matched with another technical skill to find a good job.
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THIS. My DH has a degree in journalism. When we first started dating he was one year out of school and making $25,000 with no benefits. Ouch. He changed jobs and was making $25,000 and had health insurance. It took a few years just to get to $35k. It's an incredibly competitive and also low paying field because there are few jobs and tons of people with journalism degrees.
Five years out of school he started making over $50k, but that was due to some very unusual circumstances and a stroke of luck. He also has a crazy schedule, working mostly evenings and weekends, and having to do a bit of travel to cover events. Honestly, it's pretty hard on me having a child and a husband who is gone almost every weekend about six months out of the year.
My DH is always able to find cheap help to cover events and write stories for the website he runs. As in, paying minimum wage to people with college degrees. He's had college grads offer to work for free because they are so desperate to get some experience on their resume to try to get a paying job.
DH says he would strongly discourage our son from getting a journalism degree if he wanted to pursue that. I would as well, as it was a real struggle for a while.
How do you plan on making a living being a writer? What type of writer?
Well journalism is the correct major but I don't think you understand that those jobs are not readily available and if you get one, would likely only be earning $12 an hour.
Unless you have a trust fund or wealthy spouse, it is not an easy life living on $12 an hour.
Also a terrible return on investment when you are looking to spend $40-80k (at least) on college to earn the same $12 an hour you could easily earn without a degree.
There are a lot of ways one can write without being a journalist.
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