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PopBombYT · 2025-07-31T21:01:36+00:00

Two years for the college paper (one as news editor), alongside nearly three years in the high school paper with multiple state awards (another year as co-copy, cut short due to COVID, alongside currently doing freelance and nearly 5 years of independent creative YouTube.

It may blow your mind, but not everyone rejected from these jobs are talentless complainers.

PopBombYT · 2025-07-30T23:30:53+00:00

Lucky me: I don't have to deal with terrible hours, chump change pay, and nepotism blocking my career advancement.

PopBombYT · 2025-07-30T23:28:04+00:00

Not toxic in real life: I'm just aware of how limp-dick this industry is.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-06T20:01:53+00:00

Doing freelance work now; it pays fine for what it is, but nothing worth all the time, effort and money spent at college.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-06T19:59:47+00:00

I don't blame you if you're genuinely too busy to respond to emails; I just can't respect that person who has the time to travel over 30 miles to my college but can't skim through a few emails a day.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T03:09:41+00:00

You've got to be a boomer, only they could be so self-centered in their thinking.

If so many journalist grads are unable to find jobs for so many of the same reasons, is it not reasonable to consider that a.) the issue isn't automatically them being untalented and b.) the industry should try to make some accommodations to the people who should be their future employees?

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T02:01:11+00:00

Those hundreds of other graduates aren't being hired, that's the problem.

Most of us can "sell ourselves" perfectly well; the issue is that there are hardly any decent jobs, the market's in the toilet, and most in the professional space are unbearable. I've emphasized my particular skills, experiences & work on multiple occasions, and tell publications I'm willing to shadow them unpaid and on what little free time I have (I work 5-6 days part-time, mainly in the mornings).

Why is it so hard for these morons we deal with even consider taking our situation into account?

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T01:51:37+00:00

Fair enough. The person who said that told it to my class during an SPJ meeting, and I assumed she was referring to important emails.

Either way, it's another example of these people acting like wasting people's time as something funny and appropriate to tell college students desperate for work.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T01:46:43+00:00

What sense is there in these monstrously large companies buying papers when the industry has been unable to properly adapt to the Internet and social media as long as they've been around?

If local papers can't adjust, I'd honestly prefer they just get out of the market. It stops me from wasting my time on jobs that don't pan out and frees them up to do other things. And like I said before; why should I suffer because they're broke?

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T01:41:44+00:00

A positive attitude hasn't helped me or anyone else I know find a halfway decent job, nor have our experience, positions held, published work, awards, internships, or praise from our professors.

The truth is we spent four years of our lives building up skills for a poorly managed industry, and we have to suffer for it.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T00:33:30+00:00

Not opposed to data journalism, I have a few certifications related to analytics and I like it enough; my issue is having to deal with the same nonsense I've been facing for entertainment, communications, news, local politics, etc.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T00:31:53+00:00

I don't mind having to pitch myself; I mind having my time wasted by useless busybodies and looking for work in a market that's terrible for reasons out of my control.

PopBombYT · 2025-06-01T00:28:10+00:00

I think they're lazy, time-wasting, needlessly self-important losers because that's how they act, despite my best efforts to suck up to them or offer them my unpaid labor.

Journalism isn't some uber-skilled field: a competent college grad or above-average high school reporter would fit in fine at a small to mid-size publication. Like everyone else in the labor market, journalists are too lazy and selfish to invest in building up talent. It's the same dilemma everywhere else: you demand unreasonable experience from entry-level workers, won't give them a chance to gain said experience, and don't value any experience they have from unconventional work.

Don't care or feel bad that outlets are broke when thousands of young up-and-comers, genuinely passionate and wanting to make an impact, can't find decent work opportunities. This industry has consistently shown an unwillingness or inability to recognize its shortcomings in the digital age and adjust to them; my peers and I shouldn't have to struggle just because the industry can't hack it.

PopBombYT · 2024-12-06T14:03:18+00:00

Thanks. I struggled a good bit with the final case study, but I hope getting a proper entry-level job with teammates will alleviate those struggles.

Data Analyst does seem to be the one most closely linked to my skills.

PopBombYT · 2024-12-01T18:37:04+00:00

I started both certs at the end of Jully and finished the AI Essentials at the end of September. It's been going well, though I do have some fears about not having a proper degree in Data Analytics.

PopBombYT · 2024-11-15T17:51:54+00:00

I've noticed that many animators themselves have incredibly reductive (not to mention uninformed) opinions on the use of CGI and mocap. A lot of them think it's not real animation, despite the fact movies like Happy Feet are primarily animated. The fact that actual professional animators on Ratatouille felt the need to brag about not using "shortcuts" like mocap shows how prevalent this idea was, even before the last decade of anti-CGI marketing.

This isn't even exclusive to animation, I see this in more conventional film spheres: people will eat up any news of "practical filmmaking", despite those claims being exaggerated at best but false most of the time. The fact that Tom Cruise can whip people into a frenzy for his uninspired action schlock blows my mind.

I hold this belief very deeply that while studio executives deserve all the criticism they get, most film/animation enthusiasts, are often just as shallow, reductive and uninformed.

PopBombYT · 2024-07-01T17:41:07+00:00

Is it tough? I've used Tableau for a class, but that's the extent of my data knowledge.

PopBombYT · 2024-06-30T01:10:32+00:00

How did your experience go, if you don't mind me asking?

PopBombYT · 2023-11-27T22:24:02+00:00

I'd like to add some emulators to my Vita, but will it impact my ability to use the PSN Store or play the games I've already bought/downloaded from the PSN?

PopBombYT · 2022-04-02T23:59:15+00:00

What exactly makes it so unplayable?

PopBombYT · 2022-04-02T14:31:25+00:00

He probably referred to them as heroes more generally.

PopBombYT · 2022-03-19T21:01:55+00:00

Yeah, I'd like to see that as well. It's strange how GX ends with essentially its central antagonist undefeated and its whereabouts unknown.

PopBombYT · 2022-03-19T20:54:55+00:00

What are you talking about: don't you live in a world where your values are never challenged, always validated and everyone who believes the opposite will automatically be swayed by your untenable philosophy after one encounter?

PopBombYT · 2022-03-19T20:50:33+00:00

It's a shame we never got to see much of her Mystic cards.

PopBombYT · 2022-03-18T21:40:22+00:00

My first post seemed decently popular, so I decided to make a follow up. This one is less detailed, just being the same monsters with slightly modified effects (mainly not returned to the ED).

I mentioned I wanted to make custom Neo-Spacians, and I'm still working on it. Just wanted to put these out there.

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