dear Tom,
just a quick rant here before I go out to meet a friend. In spite of my previous post, where I explained (perhaps a bit too delicately) that there are no employment opportunities open for sound engineers at this studio, I continue to receive CVs, e-mail, phone calls, etc., almost on a daily basis, from hungry young men and women who have all graduated from some school of audio engineering (note that those words are not capitalized and so not specific to one school which might like to sue me for blowing their cover), university program, or other “educational” institution.
I will now reveal the truth: those people who fell for the magazine ads: if I WERE to find myself in need of the help of an audio engineer on a steady basis, I would NOT choose from the insanely vast pool of hopefuls that is churned out year for year from these institutions, because a. I do not trust the abilities of those schooled at factories, b. I know plenty of qualified people already, and c. I would not be doing anyone a favor by contributing to their delusions that audio engineering, as a career, holds promise.
billiously,
Phil