Re: Yep, another newbie.

From: Dwilliams (animallady2002_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:58:29 -0500

My best advice would be to stay in the marketing field. Going into MT
you'll soon be "fed up" with being on the other side of the coin. If you get
your own accounts, don't expect recruiting, etc., etc. to be any different
than your recruiting efforts in marketing and don't expect to find the work
ethic any different either, people are people. If you go to work for a
national (the most likely to hire you), expect to get no respect and no
appreciation no matter how good you are. Around 1000 lines a day is the
usual requirement and at 6.5 cpl (what you're likely to be offered at best)
, that's a whopping $65 a day and it can be extremely difficult for a newbie
to get 1000 lines a day, especially if you are paid on a 65 character line
(likely), and aren't paid for headers, footers (likely) and most of all,
spaces (about 50/50 chance). The ads for many of the schools that promise
$30,000+ per year are full of crap. Yes, you CAN make $30,000+ but......
Did your school tell you about ESL dicators? Dr. Mushmouth and Dr. Speedy
Gonzalez (the one who takes a deep breath and dictates 3 pages before he
takes another breath)?

If your school can't assist you in placement, I would have to question just
how "good" they really are. I don't know this to be fact but I've heard a
couple of the top schools have employers lined up ready to snatch their
graduates.

I wish you luck and I don't mean to be a naysayer, MT has been very good
to me for a lot of years but I've watched it go progressively downhill in
the past 10 years or so and all I can see is it continuing on that course.
If I was young and looking for a career, I wouldn't even consider MT these
days. A Mickey D manager position would probably pay twice as much with
half the frustration.

Dee

"grimsqueaker" <probono@rap.midco.net> wrote in message
news:a9195351.0407082233.d147c7d@posting.google.com...
> I'd like to add that I am currently the marketing director for a
> small, national advertising company, and I can tell you I am fed up
> searching for, training, and ultimately being responsible for people
> who take no pride in their work, could care less about accuracy or
> efficiency--people who just don't care.

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