[BC] Making engineering pay

[Robert Meuser]

Rachel:

There are good opportunities for people with your skill sets where you can make 
good money with people mostly in your peer group. It is out there if you want it.

R

Rachel Ehrenberg wrote:
> I have been reading this thread as I ponder the 2nd half century of my
> life.  I know that I am now too old to be hired by most commercial (and
> maybe non-commercial) broadcasters.
> I had pondered starting my own consulting/contract firm (Dana will
> probably remember that
> idea)and now I am starting to think I'll just hang it up and do
> something else, be it here in the states or overseas as I have dreamed
> of doing.
> I am not sure if I subscribe to the idea that we as engineers do an
> excellent job of putting ourselves out of business or are just the
> collateral damage of corporate mergers and the like.
>     I just read where 47 at Citytv Vancouver were just laid off.   This
>     on top of what CBC did with Master Control a few years ago.   And
>     on?and on.
> I hope young Paul Walker gets more education and experience in many
> areas of the industry so that he will be versatile enough to survive.   
> Yeah I?m depressed.
>    On the other hand, I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance?
>