Gamer Girls

 https://screenwavemedia.com/careers/

The boys on Reddit were mocking the $30,000-40,000 salary channel manager salary.  Where are these people working where that’s a laughably low salary?  

$30,000/year would be…$14.43/hour.  Let’s say $14.50.  The highest paying job I had in the US was $15/hour.  And that was a fucking nightmare job.  

Let me see what they’re paying now.  $16/hour.  That’s interesting.  I’ve checked this before and they were paying as low as $10/hour.  So they actually lowered what they paid, quite substantially.  But now they’re back up to $16.

I would not wish that job on anyone.  It involved cleaning literal shit.  You were assaulted daily.  $16/hour for that.

Or you can work at Screenwave, where there’s presumably nobody shitting themselves…wait.  Other than James, I guess.  Do you suppose that you have to clean up James when he does a boom boom in his pants?  Because in that case, no.  You might as well make the extra $1.50/hour at the mental asylum down the road.

But assuming there’s no poop involved…which…again, I’m not entirely sure that I can rule this out…then yeah, Screenwave is paying a decent wage.  

I mean, it’s a job that requires no particular education or experience.  Let me plagiarise the job description:

We are looking for partner managers with demonstrated experience in talent/influencer management with a strong track record. This position requires building and maintaining close relationships with creators. Screenwave Media channel managers are experts in talent management, brand strategy, and client acquisition.

Our approach to management is to assess the needs of the individual creator and to pair them with our wide range of services. We primarily work with midsize to large personality driven creators with a heavy YouTube presence in gaming, anime, music, and pop culture and a predominant US audience. Our channel managers are experts in YouTube trends, features, and practices through internal training, YouTube certification programs, and continual analysis of our existing brands. Most communication with channels is online, but there are generally domestic travel opportunities to industry events to provide service to clients.

The ideal candidate has more than 3 years of experience in talent management in the gaming industry and a deep understanding of YouTube. This position requires a person who is equally sales oriented and customer service driven. We are open to remote work for this position, determined by the level of experience of the candidate.

TO APPLY:Please include a cover letter and resume in your application that incorporates examples of how you’ve helped content creators build a successful brand. We want to hear about your successes and how they will translate to the position. Please also include salary requirements.

They say that they want three years of experience in “talent management in the gaming industry” but fucking nobody has that.  And they just hire their friends anyway.  And then fire them over some complete bullshit and pretend that they never existed.  

So $30,000/year seems fine to me.  It was actually more than I thought.  The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25/hour.

It’s like these people on Reddit have never worked a normal job in their lives.  Are they all nerds doing IT work?  

I also see that Screenwave are hiring interns.  I said before that it’s probably unpaid but no.  It seems to be paid.  I don’t know how much, though.  All of these ads have been taken down, presumably after that guy on Reddit posted about this.  But it seems that these interns get an hourly wage.

This is essentially an internship or possible entry-level position for those currently pursuing a 2-4 year degree, or are recently graduated/looking for experience in the field of Video Game Development, Video Editing/Production, or Graphic Design. In lieu of education, we are always eager to work with individuals with enough passion and personal experience to suffice!

So…it’s either an internship or a shitty job, however you want to look at it.  That’s not good.  They’re abusing the concept of an intern.  

There should not be internships.  Paid or unpaid.  I did an unpaid…I wouldn’t say internship because I was in my mid to late 20s but something similar.  And I did it hoping that it would lead to a job.  That’s why everybody did it.  But it didn’t lead to a job.  It just lead to me doing unpaid work for these scumbags for three months.  

This is what these internships are about.  It’s about giving people false hope about a great job that they maybe one day can get.  But first you have to work for peanuts.  Or nothing at all.  For months or years.  They’re paying in hope.  

Why not just pay a proper wage for proper work?  This isn’t a fucking internship.  This is a desperate person trying to get experience as an editor.  And they’re doing the work of an editor.  So pay them as you would do an editor.  

That’s the only scummy thing that I’m seeing here.  $30,000 for a totally unskilled, no education required job in rural Pennsylvania?  Sounds about right to me.