I was assigned a little sister last week for my music fraternity SAI. I was matched with her because she's a freshman going into the J-School so it's a learning experience for her and I can mentor her in more than just the ways of our fraternity.
She and I had our first meeting about SAI on Wednesday and it turned into a 2 hour long dinner chat about the state of the industry. And her insight made me think.
The people who are going into J-Schools right now, knowing the state of the industry, can't be doing it for the wrong reasons. If they know there are no jobs, then they're in it because they genuinely love the field of journalsim and genuinely want to find a way to fix it.
To me this means two things.
There's got to be a way to fix an industry that so many people still care about. I don't know what that way is, but they're determined to find it.
And...people in the industry now had better watch their backs. They came to position in the golden age when jobs were readily available and you didn't necessairily have to fight tooth and nail. These people coming through school now...they want it. They want it bad. And they're going to find a way to get it.
As a side note, I had a random thought the other day. I remember as a girl anxiously listening to the dial tones on my internet waiting for the dial-up to connect. That was later upgraded to DSL. And my parents, over the weekend, switched to the new AT&T U-Verse. That completely eliminated the need for my wireless router. The same can be said for my Century-Link internet in Columbia. I literally have 3 wireless routers just hanging around because the technology has surpassed their need.
Can new technology save us? Or is it the tool to our own demise?
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