Happy Belated Thanksgiving!
I know you’re all sorry you missed out on seeing me dressed up as something like a stuffed turkey on my blog last week, but I do hope you had a nice holiday even if some of you had to spend the evening at work.
After all, the show must go on in this business. While it may not be ideal, holidays are usually a great time to take your career to the next level. By that I mean filling in for someone with a better job than you. For instance, it’s a great time for reporters to play “anchor” for the night.
Don’t sweat it too much. Not only is it good for you, one day you’ll be the one to give the new kid on the block a shot while you go home. That is, if you don’t act like a turkey now. Such is the biz… it can be demanding but it's also rewarding.
Take Mike Embry, a grad I heard from recently. After working as a technical director at WWTV-TV (Channels 9 & 10) in Northern Michigan for several years, Mike was offered two jobs -- one at CNN and one at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.
After carefully considering both, it’s not terribly surprising that he accepted the job in West Palm Beach. After all, he’s done his time in the Snow Belt!
"The people I work with are the best I've ever worked with,” Mike said about his new position. “Every question was answered, and every concern was taken care of!”
As an added bonus, the pay is twice what he was making and the weather ain't bad either. Thanks for staying in touch, Mike.
I also had the pleasure of catching up with grad Tara Lipinsky. She’s back in her hometown of New York City working full-time as a digital media producer for CBS 2. She produces six web casts a day and often gets to star in them. She produces and acts as talent in a daily entertainment wrap, as well as a weekly sit-down interview with a gossip magazine.
Here are a couple examples of her work:
Daily Entertainment Wrap
Weekly Gossip Interview
It’s hard to believe it’s only been about 6 years since she graduated from Specs Howard School!
I also wanted to mention the MCA-I Golden Cassette Awards, which I attended with one of our placement advisors, Denise Lippert. As always, it was great to see a number of grads help produce the event and, and of course, win awards. Grad Darryl Bartlett took home three, Terrance Vails was awarded two, and RMS Productions (owned by grad Randy Stephenson) and Gail Costello (owner of Costello Communications) each won an award.
Grads Sonja Crosby and Terrance Vails, along with our very own video department supervisor, Brad Richter acted as presenters and Bob Daniels of BlueWater Technologies, Jon-Eric Cornellier and Frank Denkhaus provided tech support.
Overall, it was a great night and once again I felt proud to be a part of what we do at Specs Howard School. As always, please let me know how YOU'RE doing!
