economic poopfest

[Cops]

Good luck Cops! Given the way things are going with media these days, and how the world is, have you considered trying to find 'work' with any media blogs, or even considering starting your own news blog/internet media site? I mean it probably won't pay much if anything at all for now, but the future is going online, and the traditional avenues of media will become less and less lucrative.

The 'best' part about the recession is that my interest on my student line of credit has dropped dramatically, almost about 4% now. That's a LOT of money a year considering how much debt I'm in.

I've created a blogspot website to post articles, I've also considered posting for suite101 (Not sure if that site is really worth my time).

Right now I'm producing a 30 minute magazine show every other week on top of a 30 minute news show which I Associate-Produce every week. It's becoming increasingly hard to find time to do any side projects I may want to do. On top of that I'm also working on a documentary. I'm trying to find time just to stay sane. I finish school 3-4 hours after everyone else and I end up sending 10-15 emails a day co-ordinating a production that is completely based out of the alloted class time (Magazine Show).

[DankNuggets]

i think he meant government-wise, which i can sorta attest to. i work for the state government, and they aren't laying people off anytime soon. they will simply not let out as many projects to contractors before laying off employees, which sucks for them, but it works out for us. my girlfriend is having a horrible time finding a job, but half of it comes from finding it hard to use a HRTM degree.

[Zeebu]

I've seen people get laid off but its very, very rare and had nothing to do with the economy at the time

lots of layoffs here

im still not sure if i am in the clear yet or not

[Izor]

well, I'm fairly secure because I work for the us gov't directly (not sure if this is true or not) but I've never really heard of anyone who's a direct federal employee laid off YET. Although plenty of gov't contractors are being affected because of spending freezes everywhere.

I've seen people get laid off but its very, very rare and had nothing to do with the economy at the time

[Bioture]

well, I'm fairly secure because I work for the us gov't directly (not sure if this is true or not) but I've never really heard of anyone who's a direct federal employee laid off YET. Although plenty of gov't contractors are being affected because of spending freezes everywhere.

My father, however, recently lost his job. He worked for the same company for 11 years, and they gave him a severance of 6 months plus full vacay (2 months). So he has 8 months to get a job... I've been helping him out with his resume and whatnot. But yeah it kinda sucks. Good thing my mom still works so all the bills will get paid.

[Stompa]

Parents still take their kids to the psychiatrist these days. Pharmaceutical companies still market drugs to kids, so I still have a job.

[Squeezer]

Good luck Cops! Given the way things are going with media these days, and how the world is, have you considered trying to find 'work' with any media blogs, or even considering starting your own news blog/internet media site? I mean it probably won't pay much if anything at all for now, but the future is going online, and the traditional avenues of media will become less and less lucrative.

The 'best' part about the recession is that my interest on my student line of credit has dropped dramatically, almost about 4% now. That's a LOT of money a year considering how much debt I'm in.

I've thought about this and the idea has occurred to me to get webspace for people to submit their own Writing (whatever form that may take), but I haven't figured out a way to make it appealing beyond existing websites.

[Epinephrine]

Good luck Cops! Given the way things are going with media these days, and how the world is, have you considered trying to find 'work' with any media blogs, or even considering starting your own news blog/internet media site? I mean it probably won't pay much if anything at all for now, but the future is going online, and the traditional avenues of media will become less and less lucrative.

The 'best' part about the recession is that my interest on my student line of credit has dropped dramatically, almost about 4% now. That's a LOT of money a year considering how much debt I'm in.

[Cops]

Graduating in 2-3 months, I need to find an internship. I'm honestly not worried, a lot of broadcasters are getting laid off so I'm more or less free work which I then hope turns into cheap work. Hopefully things will pan out the same way they did for Nycle. I also found an internship run through the Ontario government that pays $40-50k a year (up to 2 years). It isn't necessarily my bread and butter by I am qualified to do the job if I want to 'broaden my horizons', ie take a job that's available. The most I'd be making if I got a paid job right now (which isn't likely) is 20-30k a year, so for me to not only work for my provincial government but to make double my expected salary would be fucking awesome.

Shit sucks, I got loans etc etc, but I don't have a house or a mortgage to worry about. If the government internship doesn't pan out I have some hope of getting an internship at CBC and seeing if I can turn that into a job, but in all reality by the time I'm finished my internship the economy is still going to be in the pisser and I doubt there will be job openings. The only thing that might pan out for me is working for a newspaper company that plans on firing a bunch of print journalists and hiring a few broadcast journalists to start creating online content. Media is breaking off from its traditional barriers, so I'm glad I made myself versatile in my field of study.

[Jerome Scuggs]

i did the math just for fun on my investment portfolio and i saved $40,000 because of my bizarre, radical idea of a depression... closed my merrill lynch account in january 2008. suckaz

edit: to clarify only ~9-10k of that was my money. my father closed his account in early february 2008, but he did it because of me, so i count it

[Izor]

lol 100% job security, i love it atm

[Pandagirl!]

It hasn't affected me that much since I have scholarships to pay for my first year in university. But, most of them are just for this year, so we'll see how next year goes. My dad is a software developer and I think he's doing alright, so far as I know.

[genocidal]

thats whats up

dr. epinienperheine in da houze:kamikaze: :w00t:

[Epinephrine]

Starting residency? Finishing residency? Starting fellowship? Finishing fellowship?

Finishing...

[Battlecat]

I work in the printing industry for the third largest printer in the US. Because the US Postal Service is constantly jacking up mailing prices, our customers (catalogers and magazines) are dwindling their page counts to make smaller books so they mail cheaper. The recession has devestated the advertising markets, especially in magazines.

BUT, the good news is.. printing is NOT going away anytime soon. And one of our main competitors is in bankruptcy, meaning we'll be picking up a lot of work from them in the future.

And yes, we print Playboy.