[Verurtle]

When you dont know how to copy and paste links such as email addresses?

DP is looking for a career change.

He loves sports and wants to find a job where he wants to go to work each day.

He is looking into TAFE courses, but I dont know if it would be a career as such or more of just a hobby?

I know the TAFE course would be great for him as it will help him with tasks such as copy and paste, however I have stressed to him that I am not doing the course for him.

I think he should keep his day job and treat this more as a hobby, but I dont want to put him down.

How hard is it to get work as a journalist?

[SCARFACE CLAW]

He'd need to do a uni course in Journalism, such as RMIT, not Tafe... it isn't something you just walk into.

[Chief Pancake Ma...]

Very hard to get work.

A friend (and most her friends) who have degrees in journalism have found it very hard to get work - and thats with a degree. She had to move to the country and work on small regional papers originally. Traineeships/cadetships are also hard to get and the pay is terrible. My friend now works in communications, and most of her friends who she studied with are also no longer in the field.

[FluffyOscar]

It's a bit of a redundant profession. Proven by the massive downsizing at Australia's two major media companies (News and Fairfax) and the gross outsourcing of many functions such as sub-editing to offshore.

[Verurtle]

Is there any other career or type of work that he could get into that is related to this?

The only other option he is thinking of is as a pit crew guy with a motor sport team.

[Sinister Bonnet]

Sports journalism is very competitive and you'd need a degree at the very least to break into the field.

It looks like your DH is at least dreaming large with the career change.

[FluffyOscar]

He could start a blog reviewing modified cars. But that would be a hobby, not a job.

Good luck.

[melbelle]

I have a masters in communication, majoring in journalism.
I work in lobbying/pr as do most of the people I went to uni with.

Traditional journalism is dead. Without established contacts in the industry you want to cover you are without a chance.

Sport journalists are increasingly retired athletes and/or their children.

Sure, he could write a blog... But I don't think the time and expense required to be qualified would be anywhere near reciprocated financially or professionally.

[Tyrone Finkelmey...]

What does he do at the moment?
What sort of work does he want - in an office, in the outdoors, working with his hands, doing research, solitary, mixing and talking with lots of people etc. I would think that's what he needs to work out first.

[erindiv]

You wouldn't be putting him down, you'd be being realistic. It sounds like he dreams big, as a PP said. Nothing wrong with dreams, but the sorts of dreams your DH is dreaming take a long, long time and a lot of hard work to achieve, and you're competing with hundreds, even thousands of other people who want the same dream job.

I'm sure most people at some stage dream of having a job where they love going to work. For some people, it just can't happen.

I'd say he should figure out a bit more of a vague area he wants to get into, research it, do it as a hobby and try to work his way up.

You mentioned being in a pit crew. Would he be interested in becoming a mechanic? That's a lot easier to get into.

This post has been edited by erindiv: 05/01/2013, 10:30 PM