Having Studied Media in University
I am constantly hounded by one of 2 things.

1) Getting the "wow, you must be dumb" "haha you would have done better to do nothing" look when I tell people of my degree subject

whilst I understand that people may use media as an easy option, but those people don't make it past the first year. my course was challenging and largely involved politics, sociology, psychology, analysis etc moreso than learning how to take a photograph. although it included that too. I believe media to be a very challenging and intelligent degree to do.

2) People believing that they know better/just as much as you because they have a camcorder and windows movie maker or because they have a point and shoot still camera and can put a filter on in photoshop.

media is so accessible that everyone thinks they are an expert, think of me as stupid for spending 3 years taking photos then look very surprised when I fix their entire company's PR, marketing and web design raising their profile by several hundred percent.

what do you think I did for 3 years???
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Tue 6 May 2008, 9:49, 7 replies)

Yeeeees, as J. Paxman might say, but...
...you didn't learn to spell, did you?
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 6 May 2008, 10:00, closed)

sorry
typo, not spelling mistake. there's a difference.
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Tue 6 May 2008, 10:13, closed)

Fess up
'accesable' is a hell of a typo. Methinks 'tis a mis-spelling. Egad.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Tue 6 May 2008, 10:48, closed)

again sorry
thought you were referring to the (now edited "polotics") yep that "accesable" would be a spelling mistake
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Tue 6 May 2008, 10:56, closed)

post-edit apologies!
Sorry!
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:45, closed)

media?
wow, you must be dumb...


:op have a click
( zulu eh?, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:12, closed)

I think..
I think most people on this bored would agree with your point about being usurped by anybody with a computer.

I have worked in various media industries and always met with the client who said ' I did this myself..it just needs a bit of tweaking'.

It denigrates the whole industry when credit is not given for the knowledge required to be a 'professional'.

It won't go away but you will get some succour here, I would have thought. (snigger)
( BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Tue 6 May 2008, 13:12, closed)