MaxSebastian
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Time for a rant. Read on at your peril!
I like to think of myself as a half-capable human being, who was recently told by an official source at a recent job interview that from my test results, I had more ability than someone with ten years' experience in the media. Some of you may even have once glanced at some of my abilities in one of the stories I've written for this site.
Now sadly, I've pretty much just come out of journalism school (incidentally, the finest and most prostigious one in the country) so I have very little in the way of experience to draw from.
But after going through various interviews and being drop-kicked out before I could even say thanks for the little plastic cup of water, I thought I might be onto something when I got invited to a second interview for a so-called 'entry level' job on a very minor publication, a job which paid a salary equivalent to about three Happy Meals a year. And I failed to get this job because... I didn't have enough experience. Ah.
So how do you get experience in the media in the UK? Well, you can do work experience for starters. I've done plenty, on some pretty big titles, too. In fact, from my experience within a certain large publisher, I found that many magazines cannot actually function unless they have so many unpaid work experience people working there doing all the crap jobs nobody else wants to do. This, in essence, is slave labour.
But then, hang on, what happens when you apply for a job in the media? What happens to all that valuable slave labour you put in? Where does it get you? Nowhere. Work experience isn't looked at when you've applied for a job.
Surely some people must be getting into the media, even if I can't?
Sure, some people are. In this country, it's people who are good friends or relatives of the people already in the media. Other people can get the hell off the bus. In this country, certain families dominate the media, and as many people suspect, the media is the voice of power in Britain.
So... you have to be born into the media pretty much... and... the media has a lot of power... so... hooray! We've found a new aristocracy! Isn't that nice? All that fighting to secure freedom around the world, and we're all heading straight back to a class of people with a tight grip on power and wealth in the world. Fantastic. How far we've come.
Okay, rant over. Back to writing stories and stacking supermarket shelves...
I like to think of myself as a half-capable human being, who was recently told by an official source at a recent job interview that from my test results, I had more ability than someone with ten years' experience in the media. Some of you may even have once glanced at some of my abilities in one of the stories I've written for this site.
Now sadly, I've pretty much just come out of journalism school (incidentally, the finest and most prostigious one in the country) so I have very little in the way of experience to draw from.
But after going through various interviews and being drop-kicked out before I could even say thanks for the little plastic cup of water, I thought I might be onto something when I got invited to a second interview for a so-called 'entry level' job on a very minor publication, a job which paid a salary equivalent to about three Happy Meals a year. And I failed to get this job because... I didn't have enough experience. Ah.
So how do you get experience in the media in the UK? Well, you can do work experience for starters. I've done plenty, on some pretty big titles, too. In fact, from my experience within a certain large publisher, I found that many magazines cannot actually function unless they have so many unpaid work experience people working there doing all the crap jobs nobody else wants to do. This, in essence, is slave labour.
But then, hang on, what happens when you apply for a job in the media? What happens to all that valuable slave labour you put in? Where does it get you? Nowhere. Work experience isn't looked at when you've applied for a job.
Surely some people must be getting into the media, even if I can't?
Sure, some people are. In this country, it's people who are good friends or relatives of the people already in the media. Other people can get the hell off the bus. In this country, certain families dominate the media, and as many people suspect, the media is the voice of power in Britain.
So... you have to be born into the media pretty much... and... the media has a lot of power... so... hooray! We've found a new aristocracy! Isn't that nice? All that fighting to secure freedom around the world, and we're all heading straight back to a class of people with a tight grip on power and wealth in the world. Fantastic. How far we've come.
Okay, rant over. Back to writing stories and stacking supermarket shelves...
