what tha...
I looked up, and a week had passed since I blogged?! Where did the time go?
Y'all were right, enjoy the down time, cause I'm knee deep in things to do right now. Since there's so many things going on, I'll try to cover them all.
I've touched on the subject of career change, but only slightly. The reason being, the people that do know look at me like I've lost a small section of my brainwhen I tell them what direction I'm going . But since I can't see what kind of look you're giving me, I feel like expanding on the subject.
If you knew me past the world of blogging, you would know that radio broadcasting is in my blood. I love it. I love the people. I love the hurried pace, the last second stress, thinking through every word that come across a mic, being able to turn a conversation in a second, those moments when your O.C.D. like organization makes a break, that doesn't last more than a couple if minutes, work perfectly.
Then there are the parts like never getting paid as much as my male partners, though I've got the college, experience and talent to run circles around them, and being awake at 3 am is not good, not even if you're still up. If you work in country music, you should know something about it, I think you should appeal to your audience. Most djs don't have that. Working 14 or 17 days straight is not glamorous at all. When people laugh at you being tired because "all you do is talk a few hours a day", and you know every word to every commercial and jingle that has played on the air for at least the last 6 years, it begins to wear on a person.
Radio is torture to it's djs. It such an oxymoron to take a dynamic, outgoing, energetic person, and put them in a room by themselves. Most djs that have been in radio for while, and not those that made it big time so that the fat paycheck evens out the odds, but the little guys, most of them are heavy drinkers, smokers, or close up most of the their personalities. It can be torture.
So when I woke up, and saw that radio, like most things that seem to idealistic as a college student, wasn't idealistic at all, I wanted a change. I left radio once, for a couple of years, and found that sitting behind a desk was just as torturous. All that energy with no where to go. So, back to radio I went. All the endorsement deals with new cars to drive, free beer at local establishments and people asking for autographs can seem very appealing for a while.
and since this post is so much longer than I meant it to be, the next installment will be the soul searching answers that are changing my life......
"more after the break, don't go anywhere"
Y'all were right, enjoy the down time, cause I'm knee deep in things to do right now. Since there's so many things going on, I'll try to cover them all.
I've touched on the subject of career change, but only slightly. The reason being, the people that do know look at me like I've lost a small section of my brainwhen I tell them what direction I'm going . But since I can't see what kind of look you're giving me, I feel like expanding on the subject.
If you knew me past the world of blogging, you would know that radio broadcasting is in my blood. I love it. I love the people. I love the hurried pace, the last second stress, thinking through every word that come across a mic, being able to turn a conversation in a second, those moments when your O.C.D. like organization makes a break, that doesn't last more than a couple if minutes, work perfectly.
Then there are the parts like never getting paid as much as my male partners, though I've got the college, experience and talent to run circles around them, and being awake at 3 am is not good, not even if you're still up. If you work in country music, you should know something about it, I think you should appeal to your audience. Most djs don't have that. Working 14 or 17 days straight is not glamorous at all. When people laugh at you being tired because "all you do is talk a few hours a day", and you know every word to every commercial and jingle that has played on the air for at least the last 6 years, it begins to wear on a person.
Radio is torture to it's djs. It such an oxymoron to take a dynamic, outgoing, energetic person, and put them in a room by themselves. Most djs that have been in radio for while, and not those that made it big time so that the fat paycheck evens out the odds, but the little guys, most of them are heavy drinkers, smokers, or close up most of the their personalities. It can be torture.
So when I woke up, and saw that radio, like most things that seem to idealistic as a college student, wasn't idealistic at all, I wanted a change. I left radio once, for a couple of years, and found that sitting behind a desk was just as torturous. All that energy with no where to go. So, back to radio I went. All the endorsement deals with new cars to drive, free beer at local establishments and people asking for autographs can seem very appealing for a while.
and since this post is so much longer than I meant it to be, the next installment will be the soul searching answers that are changing my life......
"more after the break, don't go anywhere"
posted by Christa @ 9:55 PM
1 Comments:
At 4:59 PM,
Anonymous said…
I'm giving you a dirty look because you didn't spill the beans about your new career yet. Don't let it be a whole 'nother week. :-)
- T-bone
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