- MUST have good sense of humour and a positive attitude towards work
This was a bulleted requirement on a recent advert for a runner position for a TV production. This Simply infuriated me, the very fact that an alumni that studied an arts course or more obvoiusly yet redunduntly, a broadcast course who has amounted the same steep of financial debt as someone studying Law, but the unequivocal difference is, when the Law Graduate apply's for a job one will discover required skills to be: Strong transactional skills, Ability and motivation to manage a broad range of work, Ability to adapt management style, Strong academics along with a 2:1 in Law related Degree. Salary: 45'000 to 50'000 Pa. Whereas our brethren in the Media industry are received with an initial application that contains: MUST have good sense of humor and a positive attitude towards work, starting Salary: 12K and a free Lunch.
All that money spent on a Creative Degree course and all along I could have got a BA (Hons) in quantitative humour.
