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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]Springslips
(533 posts)I was a journalism student. My advisor/ professor once shared how he got into journalism. He graduated with a History degree. After getting his degree he hit the street. He came to a building with a help wanted sign; it was a newspaper. He went in and they hired him on the spot for a reporter job. He told them he had no education or experience in reporting. They said, " just read a bunch of stories in the paper and write them like that." I would love to live in that world. A world where employers didn't make their jobs sound more difficult than it is.
No media company would ever hire a history major today. Everything is so damn specified, it is crazy. Back then, the mid-1990s, I couldn't even get a bookseller job because my only other experience was a high school McDonald job. I had to settle for another fast food position.
Not to bash on boomers, but you had a better world. A guy makes a career out if walking down the street and answering a help wanted sign; no plan to do it, no experience, amazing. What America was!