My Career Choice - Argument Essay

My Career Choice

Teens all across America, such as myself, are already considering different colleges and careers to begin aiming their studies towards. These career options may concern teens’ parents so I would like to explain to my parents the benefits and advantages in my career choice. A career option that I wish to pursue is film and television editing and production which is offered at a college I am interested in, Dallas Baptist University.

I have looked into numerous colleges and universities across Texas and the only one that met my preferences was DBU. The tuition for DBU averages around to $30,835 including books, room, and cafeteria fees. The minimum score on the SAT required is 770 but about forty-four percent of students are admitted who enrolled. The deadline to apply is March fifteenth. This university provides multiple undergraduate courses related to my career choice such as, ‘Introduction to Broadcast/Digital Media,’ ‘Film and Electronic Cinematography,’ ‘Video Editing,’ and ‘Broadcast Digital Media Practicum’ along with much more that fulfill the requirements to be a television and film editor. Also, these film-making classes “enable students to forge valuable friendships and professional contacts (Careers in Focus 107).” Many editors have mentioned that they gained “their first jobs through people they met in college (Careers in Focus 107).” Dallas Baptist University is a private university with caring professors and a beautiful campus where I know I would enjoy myself and live out the full college experience.

There are endless amounts of experience at DBU in this field of work that will benefit me greatly. While taking the college courses, “junior filmmakers receive valuable feedback from teachers and students (Careers in Focus 107).” Even though a college education is not a mandatory requirement of becoming an editor, “a filmmaking class provides students with hands on opportunities with professional-grade equipment and real actors (Careers in Focus 107).” I will also have the opportunity to “write a script, use a camera, edit film, produce a project, light a set, build props, in addition to learning about the history of film (Careers in Focus 107).” There is no doubt I will graduate from DBU with plenty of experience in my career choice.

To be a film and television editor, it is important to understand the annual salary so that I will be able to provide for myself and maybe one day, a family. It is said that “the most experienced and sought-after film editors can command much higher salaries (Encyclopedia of Careers 421),” so I must be diligent in every aspect of this career. Statistics show that “the lowest paid 10 percent of all film editors earned less than $25,960 a year, while the highest paid 10 percent earned more than $128,500 (Encyclopedia of Careers 421),” which means the salary can range widely depending on where I work and how much experience I have. Film and Television editors are not as highly paid as others working within their industry, “but they have more authority in the production of a project than many other film technicians (Encyclopedia of Careers 421).” Good companies to work for in this line of work can literally be any type of company because every company uses some form of digital media production to broadcast their product and advertise their business.

The job description of a film and television editor shows things I would find rewarding and things I would not enjoy in this career. The working environment of an editor is “often

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