[BC] Making engineering pay - Age Discrimination

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:46 PM 7/25/2006, Jeff Johnson wrote: -------

>Rachel, age appears to be not-a-problem in public radio, especially 
>those academically based. You are appreciated for your wisdom and 
>experience. In public radio we are in it for the love of our craft 
>at all levels of the organization.

 From personal experience I'd argue with that. I applied for the PD 
position at a Public station. I wasn't even given the courtesy of an 
interview "because I wasn't currently working at a station." Does one 
lose decades of experience the day one leaves a station? It's my 
belief I wasn't even considered (I have Public Radio Experience) 
because I'm not a twenty or thirty-something.

Rich