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I, for one, am getting tired of the station history and a "certain someone's" over and over again posts in a weak attempt to gain attention.

So, shifting gears and back to radio -

While I, thankfully, have remained in my position for a few years now, I have had 2 radio friends tell me they are getting out of the biz this week. Not thinking about it, but actually getting out of the business altogether. Both on the programming side, one full time, one part time and both beyond ready to move on for a bevy of genuine reasons.

Their question for me - what do I do next?

Is there a related business that one can use their radio skills in? One that can provide a natural transition or are we just such a different animal, we radio people, that they have nowhere to go w/o schooling?
 
Basically they should think about trying to find a position that allows them to use learned skills while reinventing themselves. Here's some ideas:

A PIO or media relations position
Communications consultant
Marketing rep/manager
Website content manager
 
SeattleRadioPro said:
Basically they should think about trying to find a position that allows them to use learned skills while reinventing themselves. Here's some ideas:

A PIO or media relations position
Communications consultant
Marketing rep/manager
Website content manager
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Real estate isn't too bad either....ask Pat O'Day.......
 
Yep, real estate isnt too bad...Ha ha. The market has been crap for a year and we are looking at another 18 mos to 2 yrs to get it back. I own a real estate company after 30 years in that exciting world of radio. I did own an ad agency and did programming consultant work for a few years after my inglorious exit from the fantasy world of radio.At the least, you can control your own futureand not go through the ups and downs of ratings and stupid management.
 
Radio is the perfect training for any kind of sales position. Radio sales skills transfer to many professions. If you can sell "air" imagine how much easier it is to sell tangible products like furniture, copiers, medical supplies. A friend in radio programming went into medical sales and makes a fortune! Radio programmers and air-talent sell themselves daily, so it is was a pretty easy transition for her to move into medical supply sales.

Car sales and real estate sales are making a comeback and many radio people end up in both of these and do quite well. There is life after radio, but those who leave, always seem to long for the days they were back at the radio station. Most won't go back, but they do miss it. Says something about the industry.
 
Restaurant management.

Your setting a mood and tempo for your place. Its also a very analog job….The most analog job I have had. Only computer used is the POS system for order taking. It’s the only job I have had where I couldn’t replace everyone with an Audio Vault. At one point if I could have replaced the bar staff with an Audio Vault I would have.
 
I to fell into the question about "WHATS NEXT?" After my last radio gig. I found myself trying to reinvent myself time after time. Needless to say with djing in clubs and radio I found that I didnt have to really re-invert the wheel of life. I took some time to asked myself "What do you do and what are you good at"? The sales pitch was something that all of us AIR TALENTS have. We could and still can shoes to Nike and Vans all day long to each company with no hesitation. Thats what we trained ourselves to do SELL SELL SELL from our advertisers to station promos. I looked even further than that because I knew that I could sell because in our radio jobs how many times did you have to sell the station for a salesman that could not seal the deal? So you as the talent did it for them and got what a pat on the back. Anyhow after beating myself up on what I can and cant do I went back to the basics that was mobile djing and sound system set ups. I love it and to this day still do. I had told myself since the first day ever cracking the mic. ALEX YOU WERE A DJ BEFORE YOU EVER JUMPED INTO THE RADIO GAME AND YOU WILL BE DJING AFTER THE RADIO GAME. To this day i still do.
After the long talk with myself and countless here and there jobs I came across something that was right up to what I have been doing for the past 20+ years. Audio and Visual systems and set up. Now I am a manager for an A/V company and enjoy everyday of life outside of radio. I get the emotional DAMN I MISS BEING ON THE AIR, but think back do I really miss the headaches and office politics? HELL NO!!! Sometimes the question is what will I do next? Yet the answer could be as easy as what can I do next or what is it that I have done in the past that I will fall back on and be happy. Happiness is the key of life. Money comes and goes feels good when you have feels bad when you dont. Dont worry about the dollar figure WE AS RADIO STARS KNOW HOW TO GET IT AND CAN REACH OUT AT ANYTIME TO GET IT. Just my own two cents.
Alex G!
 
Alexg1200 said:
I to fell into the question about "WHATS NEXT?" After my last radio gig. I found myself trying to reinvent myself time after time. Needless to say with djing in clubs and radio I found that I didnt have to really re-invert the wheel of life. I took some time to asked myself "What do you do and what are you good at"? The sales pitch was something that all of us AIR TALENTS have. We could and still can shoes to Nike and Vans all day long to each company with no hesitation. Thats what we trained ourselves to do SELL SELL SELL from our advertisers to station promos. I looked even further than that because I knew that I could sell because in our radio jobs how many times did you have to sell the station for a salesman that could not seal the deal? So you as the talent did it for them and got what a pat on the back. Anyhow after beating myself up on what I can and cant do I went back to the basics that was mobile djing and sound system set ups. I love it and to this day still do. I had told myself since the first day ever cracking the mic. ALEX YOU WERE A DJ BEFORE YOU EVER JUMPED INTO THE RADIO GAME AND YOU WILL BE DJING AFTER THE RADIO GAME. To this day i still do.
After the long talk with myself and countless here and there jobs I came across something that was right up to what I have been doing for the past 20+ years. Audio and Visual systems and set up. Now I am a manager for an A/V company and enjoy everyday of life outside of radio. I get the emotional DAMN I MISS BEING ON THE AIR, but think back do I really miss the headaches and office politics? HELL NO!!! Sometimes the question is what will I do next? Yet the answer could be as easy as what can I do next or what is it that I have done in the past that I will fall back on and be happy. Happiness is the key of life. Money comes and goes feels good when you have feels bad when you dont. Dont worry about the dollar figure WE AS RADIO STARS KNOW HOW TO GET IT AND CAN REACH OUT AT ANYTIME TO GET IT. Just my own two cents.
Alex G!
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Actually, since I left this industry, I've never been happier personally. 20 tons of dead weight off my shoulders, just like that. No living in fear of being downsized, no incompetent egomaniacs dictating me. Being self-employed in real estate, I do better now, both financially and personally than I ever have with the radio industry.

Which makes coming to this board so much fun now.....
 
I'd say TV, but that's going from broadcast medium to another. I quote Gallagher, when he said, " My TV has Brightness knob. But it doesn't work." Now I've been in TV so long, I don't know how to get out of it.

I miss the great radio of the late 60's and early 70's. The stations were fun to work at back then.
 
jrobert said:
I miss the great radio of the late 60's and early 70's. The stations were fun to work at back then.
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And a LOT more fun to listen to than most of the heard one, you heard 'em all dreck on the radio these days......
 
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