"KØHB" ) writes:
"N2EY" wrote


- The reward system is unbalanced in ways beyond pay compensation.
For example:


How many TV shows, movies, books, and other media do you
see today or in the past 40-odd years that are about the law and
law enforcement, or medical care? How many about any sort
of engineering or technical jobs?

TV shows, movies, books about your vocation are part of your "reward
system"? Wow! Next compensation cycle I'm going to put my engineers
pictures on TV rather than give them a pay raise. I'm sure they'll be
thrilled!

I bet you're damned glad you're not a farmer, a well driller, a plumber,
a purchasing agent, a mail carrier, a diesel mechanic, or a grocery
store manager! They don't get on TV very much either!

TV shows, movies, and books are written to entertain mass audiences, not
to be a "reward system" component.

73, de Hans, K0HB


I thought he was talking about enticing kids into professions. If you
see crime scene investigators on tv, and most portrayals will show
them as "cool", then that will make kids say "when I grow up, I want to be
a ...". It's advertising, not reward.

There's that story of Mae Jamieson, the astronaut, who says she decided
to become one, maybe even realized she could become one, from watching
Star Trek as a kid, and seeing "Lt. Uhura"; a woman, and black. If there
had been only men, only white, on TV, she might not have seen that she
could become that.

This whole thing is similar to amateur radio. If it's not out there
in the public eye, then few will find their way to the hobby. Reading
about Field Day, or anything else, isn't a reward for being a ham, but
an attempt to portray the hobby to outsiders, and hopefully in a good
light.

Michael VE2BVW