It's Not Always Easy

Amanda Oskey and Stephanie Kusy opened my eyes on Tuesday as new graduates from Texas State University. Both graduated within the last two years from SJMC and received Bachelors' in Electronic Media. But, as Kusy put it, it's not easy finding a job that quickly out of college. Sometimes you have to apply to one hundred places just to get one interview. Kusy luckily found a job working at KAVU in Victoria, TX and Oskey now works at News 8 Austin, where she obtained the job from our Mass Communication Job Fair.

Oskey put it best. "If there's 300 people who are waiting for that one job, you have to make yourself that much better." As scary as that sounded when I first heard it, her statement was the truth. She said that her experience with KTSW prepared her for radio, but when she got a job as a television assistant producer, she had to learn a whole new world of skills.

Kusy confirmed that she had to learn new skills as well. In her studio, she puts together all of her packages in its entirety from shooting it, editing it, to researching her own stories. Both Kusy and Oskey said that their jobs aren't as glamorous as people make them out to be. Instead of getting their hair and makeup done in the morning, they are missing Christmas and birthday parties with their families.

They concluded that even though it's not going to be easy, if you truly have a passion for the business, it's the best business to make a career out of.