Full time jobs shooting docs?

May 24, 2012 forum topics
Getting to one of those phases in my TV news career where I’m sick and tired of TV news -the live shots, the multiple daily slot deadlines, etc.
-So I just thought I’d ask around about this for the umpteenth time: I’d like to find a FULL-TIME videographer or video editor job WITH BENEFITS that’s not in commercial TV news where I would shoot documentary footage, like Frontline or Nova, or some of the stuff they shoot on the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet, or maybe even Jack Hanna’s "Into the Wild". I’ve been told before that the vast majority of those guys are freelancers who either own their own equipment, or rent it on a per-gig basis. I don’t want to do that, I’ve been working full time jobs all my adult life. I don’t want to work for a local PBS affiliate, either, since those places usually don’t have any money.

But every time I go to the employment section of pbs.org, or discovery.com, the only job openings they seem to have are things I’m not qualified for and wouldn’t be interested in even if I were qualified, like:
Assistant Director of Content PBS KIDS Interactive
Associate Director Brand Strategy

Director – Digital Product Development
Director Digital Curriculum
Director Interconnection Communications
Director Project Management
Frontend Developer
General Counsel Intern (2) – Summer
Interactive Product Development Intern – 2 (Summer)
Marketing Intern – Education (Summer)
Media Coordinator -2 (Summer Intern)
Senior Manager Online Fundraising
Senior Research Associate
Senior Systems Administrator
Senior Systems Analyst/Developer
Senior Web Designer – PBS KIDS Interactive
Senior Web Production Manager
Vacation Relief Tech- NOC