Network Affiliation

[BRNout]

Rockcaptain totally nails it. You work hard, show your value in what you can do . That is how I started 30 years ago. Don't think any job is beneath you-it adds to your knowledge.

Hear, hear!! Agreed 100%!

Personally, I was ecstatic just to get a foot in the door and worked my a_ off when the opportunity presented itself. In my case, the internship turned into employment (first as a stringer, then as an employee). Sometimes, it just ends up resulting in an entry on your resume and - perhaps - an aircheck. Which still has you a hell of a lot farther along the career path than doing nothing would do for you.

 

[MassMusicMan]

Most mobile DJs I have met are bitter and they are doing what they do because they couldn't make in on the radio.

I don't want to make it on the radio. Your business is in the toilet financially, and the bigwigs know nothing and treat people like garbage. I played the game. I talk to people in the business.

As for my talent, I come up with things to talk about that most of the jocks I hear on the radio couldn't dream of. I drive all over Northern New England, and I hear people reading index cards. I turn on Kiss 108, and I don't hear a joke about current events or a funny phone call, I hear some silly website plug (yes, I know it's the aforementioned know-nothing executive that makes them do it.)

I read and research trivia questions on a variety of subjects. I give people something to talk about while keeping them in the bar for two hours and increasing beer and food sales. I host some of the most well-attended events at our company, and will make $35,000 this year while still having my daytime free to pursue other interests.

How can you comment on the industry? You haven't been in it for years (I am assuming, I don't know you and I don't know your history in the biz). Were you ever on the air? Or were you just "running the board for 6 dollars an hour".

I was not on-air. I wanted to be, but the PD did not recognize my talent even to the degree where I might have been tossed an overnight bone to show my mettle. Worked out better that I didn't.

And you belittling those who "dress up and kiss people's asses for a living" shows your ignorance of the business. Hey, they are in the business and they are making a living. Both of which does not apply to you.

How's the weather up there on Mount Radio? I'm also in a business and I'm making a living.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I was right out of high school and desperate to get into radio. At that point I would have paid them to let me work there. That is passion for the industry. I knew I was good enough to make it and I would do anything I could to get my foot in the door. I didn't work free for long, they saw the value in having me around and started paying me. But sometimes you have to prove your worth.

That's true. That's why I worked overnight shifts for six bucks in high school. Did absolutely nothing for my career.

In response to DG, no job is beneath anybody in 2009. If I needed a second job, I'd take the six bucks an hour again and work overnights in radio. I just wouldn't do it for FREE.

 

[Don Juan]

I don't want to make it on the radio.

I was not on-air. I wanted to be, but the PD did not recognize my talent even to the degree where I might have been tossed an overnight bone to show my mettle.

Does anyone else see a contradiction in these two statements?

I don't want to make it on the radio. Your business is in the toilet financially, and the bigwigs know nothing and treat people like garbage. I played the game. I talk to people in the business.

You don't want to make it in radio, our industry is in the toilet, you don't care about the business.....yet you come to these boards almost every day just to enlighten everyone?

 

[MassMusicMan]

I'm a fan of radio, and I want the people I like in the business to do well and continue to be entertaining.