Ken Schulz looks toward new career
“I don’t think there are any goodbye plans,” he said, “and that’s OK. I’ll show up and meet and greet people and possibly have a piece of cake, shake some hands and say goodbye.”
“I hate to see him go,” said WHAS-TV anchor Gary Roedemeier, who worked with Schulz for almost 25 of those years. “He’ll be a big loss to that station,” said former WHAS personality Wayne Perkey, who kidded around with Schulz for years on his radio show. “We’re going to miss Ken not only on the air as our go-to guy but as a friend,” said Roedemeier.
Monty Webb is taking over weather duties on the 6, 10 and 11 p.m. news after the station decided they wanted to remove Schulz as chief meteorologist. He opted to retire instead of being demoted. Schulz harbors no bad feelings about his successor.
“I think Monty is sincere, capable and personable,” Schulz said. “I wish him a long run and hope everything works out for him and his family.”
Schulz’s family is happy that he’s moving on to a new job as a spokesman for Humana in its Medicare division. Cindy, his wife of 33 years, can’t wait.
“She’s thrilled,” he said. “She has a magnetic erase board on the refrigerator counting down the days.”
At least two other TV stations were reportedly interested in hiring Schulz, but he has a clause in his contract that prohibits him from appearing on any local competitor for one year after he leaves. One of the stations was willing to let him work there while waiting out that period, but he’s decided to take a different path.
“There’s a part of me that wants to stay in the broadcast business because it’s what I know … it’s a safe thing,” said Schulz, 54. “I’m getting older and if I’m going to do something different, now is the time to do it.” That doesn’t mean he hasn’t had some doubts.
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So whats the catch? I’m willing to bet that banks won’t be lending any money out to people who are choosing a “low pay” career path.
OK, so we have carrers with low barriers to entry and ample labor supply, thus low wages. The solution proposed is to lower barriers to entry and increase supply? Wah?For the record, I am all for increased public tertiary education and public education lending programs. Even so, the idea that we’re going to incentivize particular kinds of work by tinkering with loan forgiveness seems to me phenomenally stupid and counterproductive, not to mention ripe fruit for political exploitation. You don’t relieve the effects of a glut by worsening the glut.
Go ahead, downmod me. In the meantime I am going to go get a degree in Women’s Studies or some other completely useless major, and have you pay for it. Sweet!
Maybe if school wasn’t a business here, we wouldn’t need to pay so much, if at all. Reference Europe.
So are you saying they were tricked or something? Last time I checked when you sign on the dotted line you are obligated to the terms within. What’s their excuse? If it’s too much money don’t take out the loan.Also, what’s the “hands off” policy?Edit: Wanted to add a bit here. Personally I stayed from college because of the exorbitant cost of it these days, so I’ll be damned if I’ll even chip in for someone else to go just because they didn’t have the foresight.
I hear the conservatives crying: waaaaaahhh!!! That’s my tax money! Waaaaaaaahh!!!
I just think it’s funny how more tax money goes to war profiteers and businesses subsidies than social programs, yet self-proclaimed conservatives knee-jerk to anything that might help people and society in general.It’s also funny to see conservatives whine. Self-identified conservatives are constantly chastising “the left” for whining and complaining.The real issue is that college loans are out of control. Students are forsaking average careers in fields generally considered socially beneficial to work at large, soulless, corporations just so they can pay back their loans in ten years or more. So instead of working at a non-profit for a middle-class wage or at a country hospital, graduates have to find employment in large companies in large cities.Wah wah! Tax money is being spent to better individual lives and in so doing, society in general and the lives of all Americans! Wah wah, it’s not being spent on bombs, tanks, and useless wars! Waaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!
You don’t understand how the stafford loan system works. Banks are merely middle men. Those loans are backed up by the federal government. If a student defaults, or if the loan is forgiven, the government pays the bank the remainder of the balance. It’s the taxpayers who are paying.Nevertheless, I think this is a good trend. America is one of the only countries where the cost of (even public) college education is becoming insanely expensive. This new bill is just putting a band aid on the much bigger problem of skyrocketing tuition inflation.