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senseandsensibility

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4. I was a journalism major at a well regarded journalism

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:15 PM

Mar 2025

school in the 80's. Although I won several scholarships based on my reporting, and loved everything about working in print journalism, I could see the writing on the wall and changed majors before I completed my degree. I have never really regretted it because it was a necessary move and I am very practical at heart. But if I had been born 10 years earlier, I would have had a whole different career and life. I think about that occasionally.

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The Gen X Career Meltdown [View all] dalton99a Mar 2025 OP

Our generation faced discrimination based on age JCMach1 Mar 2025 #1

How much does AI have to do with this? SheltieLover Mar 2025 #2

Right now, not much. tinrobot Mar 2025 #6

AI is just purely toxic imo, esp where arts are concerned SheltieLover Mar 2025 #7

I know, i wish everything was concentrated in LA. that way we could get more political power Nimble_Idea Mar 2025 #8

Remember when Schwartenegger denied credits to the media / film industry flamingdem Mar 2025 #13

Motion picture and TV production in Atlanta is also dead Sedona Mar 2025 #9

This feels like an article from 20 years ago... Journalism as I knew it died in the 2000's FirstLight Mar 2025 #3

I was a journalism major at a well regarded journalism senseandsensibility Mar 2025 #4

couldn't you have stayed in journalism but not focus on print? LymphocyteLover Mar 2025 #10

I was only interested in/good at print senseandsensibility Mar 2025 #11

fair enough! LymphocyteLover Mar 2025 #16

Working in the Los Angeles film industry has always come with an expiration date. tinrobot Mar 2025 #5

Ageism...its everywhere. Xolodno Mar 2025 #12

This is seriously nothing new flamingdem Mar 2025 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Mar 2025 #15

Nah Johnny2X2X Mar 2025 #18

nice that you can speak for an entire generation Skittles Mar 2025 #19

American society is becoming a creative black hole. Oneironaut Mar 2025 #17