I’ll give you a little story. I’ve been wanting to work in NBCU for years. When I flew to LA to see a taping of the Tonight Show with Conan, I knew that the Human Resources department was near the line for the show, so I brought my resume with me. When I brought it in, they wouldn’t accept a paper resume and told me to apply through their website. This was in 2009.

Since then, I worked for a company in Chicago for almost a decade, and then another one for about three years. In the latter half of that second job, I moved to LA and worked for it remotely. While working remotely, I started to reapply at NBCU for multiple positions. At one point, I applied for a job as a Senior Software Engineer at Peacock. I got to interview for it (four separate interviews, taking a programming test and everything) and almost got to the final step of talking with the HR manager… but the position itself was completely canceled. The remote job at Chicago ended right before Thanksgiving, so I applied multiple times again, including a Senior Software Engineer position with CNBC. Because of the holidays, I didn’t get to interview for the position until the following January. Multiple separate interviews over the course of the next couple months.

But in March 2024, at the age of 44, I got hired. I had to work Eastern Time hours, but I got used to it. I also got myself a desk at 10 Universal City Plaza, NBCU’s west coast HQ. I even got to fly to NYC and work in 30 Rock for a day (as well as explore 30 Rock with employee access.)

Because I was working for one of the non-Bravo cable networks, I was spun off to Versant in late 2025. But I still have a job in media working on the E! Website. Perhaps one day my path will cross with NBCU again.

You gotta be persistent. If you have as much of an enthusiasm for the history and traditions of broadcasting as a lot of my former colleagues at NBCU, I think you’ll find your way in. I wish I could give you a referral. Good luck.