Geek Jobs in Television Production?

Takeel asks: "I'm a geek who is about to graduate from university with a bachelor of science in television production, but, for the life of me, I can't seem to find any geek jobs in TV. I know these jobs have to exist in some form; if they didn't, we wouldn't have things like TechTV! :) Does anyone happen to know about or have a geek job in the TV production industry?"

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Geek jobs in TV

[AlecC]

Yes, there are plenty of geek jobs in TV. But, because there are vast numbers of people trying to "break into TV", you want to paly the geek angle heavier than the TV production angle. And I would suggest you don't start with the big broadcatsters. They may have many, many jobs, but they tend to promote from the bottom up. You need to look at the small production houses. They are the ones buying the latest tech in order to get that little bit of edge, and then need someone with the necessary tech knowhow to drive the bleeding-edge kit they have bought. Anybody who can really drive state of the art IT kit - whether windows or *nix - and also relate easily and constrictively to creative artists should have no trouble getting, and keeping, a good job. If you really can straddle the tech world and the artistic world, you are on to a good thing.