<p>Back in the olden days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a young pup, jobs in communications meant that you’d write, or edit, or copyedit. You needed to know words. Maybe you were a journalism major. You get the idea.</p>
<p>Nowadays – in this era when people use google and wikipedia as verbs, and we txt msg, how r u? – communications means things like how many bauds can run verrrrrry quickly on a fiberoptic cable (whatever that is).</p>
<p>Am I the only one who’s confused?</p>
<p>Nope. I was frostily told off several years ago by group of engineers that my job function (writing all sorts of things for marketing departments) was <em>not</em> communications. </p>
<p>“REAL” communications was all about <em>their</em> electronic stuff talking to other electronic stuff.</p>
<p>We need people who can communicate ideas to other people more than ever!</p>
<p>My daughter is a communications major at a school that might be dropping the major. I know in her job search she is looking into PR and Marketing. So far, she is finding intern positions without a problem; I just hope when she graduates next year she will be as lucky finding a full time job!</p>