Study: More Than 25% Of Journalism Grads Wish They’d Chosen Another Career

CBS Local ^ | 08/17/2013

[Responsibility2nd]

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – A new study has found 28 percent of journalism graduates wish they had chosen another field.

An annual survey of graduates by the University of Georgia’s Grady College said “it seems likely that some graduates would be unhappy with their career choice regardless of which one they had selected”.

One in 20 of the journalism and mass communication graduates indicated that he or she had selected the field without ever intending to go into it.

[Responsibility2nd]

I'm guessing many journalism majors missed class the day they covered the whole selling your soul to the Devil routine.

[DoughtyOne]

It would be interesting to see the number of grads of any profession, that were sorry for their chosen major.

I suspect 28% isn't all that out of the ordinary...

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[cotton1706]

World not changing fast enough for them??

[thackney]

From what I’ve seen, I wish more than 75% had chosen another career.

[exDemMom]

It would be interesting to see the number of grads of any profession, that were sorry for their chosen major.

That could depend on the major. I cannot imagine that there is much of a career in philosophy, but there is a lot of opportunity for a science major.

[dennisw]

Print journalism paid more. The whole pay scale got beaten down on the shift to the internet. Now most newspapers are websites that also put out a print edition.

Maybe these kids think they will be TV “journalists”. Good luck that field is hyper competitive and you better have good looks

[dennisw]

Print journalism paid more. The whole pay scale got beaten down on the shift to the internet. Now most newspapers are websites that also put out a print edition.

Maybe these kids think they will be TV “journalists”. Good luck that field is hyper competitive and you better have good looks

[fedupjohn]

And 80% of the American people wish they had also.

[Paine in the Neck]

From what I’ve seen of recent journalism grads I don’t think any of them have the intellectual chops to do anything else. Where else are they going to go? There’s already a surfeit of sanctimonious, clueless busybodies out there. Oh, I guess they could all be ObamaCare ‘navigators’ or TSA agents.

[Gen.Blather]

I’d published some very successful articles in the local paper. Because it had no conservative voice, I proposed an editorial page column. The editor was appalled. She told me that only “specially educated” people who were actual employees of the paper could be trusted to write on politics. She implied that only those people understood politics. Then, she showed me an entire wall of file boxes and told me that they’d advertised for a reporter and those were the resumes they’d received from journalism majors...hundreds...at least.

I realized that the nations colleges were turning out hundreds of times the journalists required by the declining dinosaur media. Most of those students will be paying down student loans for decades while working a menial day job. They all wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein, which, judging by the paper’s writing, is a gotcha-style of journalism that creates the impression of a Watergate scandal for every local event regardless of how mundane it is.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Getting a degree in journalism is no different than a degree in communications or a degree in English. Problem is in either of the fields the student still cannot write a coherent sentence.

Just the way the college Marxists want it.

[tcrlaf]

If you aren’t gay and promiscuous, there is NO career path for you in National media now.

The best you can hope for if you don’t fit the political correctness profile is running a blog for free, while flipping burgers on the side.

Or, in the case of one former news director that I know, dealing blackjack on a riverboat, and not allowed to get over 29 hours a week due to Obamacare, all while STILL blaming Bush for his misery.

[Responsibility2nd]

Local TV Journalism is about as low value as you can get. I often get a laugh from the TV news reports that are posted to the web; they are just so pathetic.

[11th Commandment]

Below are the top five most popular majors of college graduates(no order):

1. Journalism/Communication
2. Philosophy
3. Sociology/Social Work
4. Education
5. Art

The five least popular majors of college graduates.

1. Econ
2. Accounting
3. Finance
4. Math
5. Engineering

The most job opportunities are in the latter group of majors and the least amount of jobs is the former.

Coincidentally, the highest GPA's are found in the former group.

Colleges are using grade inflation to keep students, who would otherwise washout, in school. I suspect that many Journalism students are realizing they are a dime a dozen chasing very few jobs.

[11th Commandment]

see my post #14... agrees with your point

[Eric in the Ozarks]

All is not lost with a J school degree.
I can write damned good business letters...

[Gen.Blather]

“I suspect that many Journalism students are realizing they are a dime a dozen chasing very few jobs. “

I don’t believe they realize there are no jobs until they get into (or attempt to get into) the real world. I know the local college, FSU, is misleading students that there is a bright, bright future for them if they just get this degree in (underwater basket weaving, juggling, gender studies, black studies, journalism, etc.)

[LucianOfSamasota]

More Than 25% Of Journalism Grads Wish They’d Chosen Another Career

That's amazing! I find myself wishing that more than 25% of journalism grads had chosen another career!

What a coincidence!

[Mouton]

That 25% probably wished they had taken pole dancing.

[Starboard]

Journalism is just a euphanism for studies in liberal propaganda dissemination. Looked at another way, journalism is the marketing of liberal ideology.