jondavidvox said:
The dysfunction you note isn't in the advice....It's the current state of Radio that requires it being shared in the first place.
I'm going to agree with you. My message was poorly written. It should not have been aggressive, and so in-your-face.
But you and I may have some things on which we disagree related to the situation of the person who kicked off this thread.
Much too late in life this old country boy realized that in this world some people are born to be quarterbacks and some born to be fighter pilots. There are certain skills to "see the playing field" and skills to prescribe the correct medicine that set these people apart. I conclude there is probably no mentor on the face of this earth who could have trained me to handle the football, see the playing field, and select a receiver or runner under the time constraints of the game.
There are people who played pretty good H.S. ball, maybe college ball, and a few who actually tried to play in the pros who did not have that inborn skill. These folks who can play the game, but can
never quite be THE STAR make GREAT COACHES because they have had to dig and experiment to learn what works. They have had to go to their coaches and mentors and ask: What am I doing wrong? Sometimes the star quarterbacks and fighter pilots can't guide someone else because they don't why or how they do it... the just do it and do it better than anybody else.
Here is what triggered me to write such a brash response. So many self-help books and essays like the one you wrote are great advice...... for the person with Quarterback brain-power. For young people who have attended college and selected a sensible degree plan that matches their brain-power and have found themselves working for a corporation that is "functional" and has a H.R. function that is given a mandate from management to groom and nurture the candidates working their way up the pyramid, essays like yours are
mandatory reading.
But for people butting their heads up against the wall in today's.... (can I call the broadcast industry dysfunctional without irritating people?)... today's broadcast industry, for even more so for people butting their heads up against the wall in trying to create a whole new genre in this world of Podcasting, streaming, on-demand digital material... I would maintain their no clear path. There are some would-be geniuses doing their best to shape and discover this new genre of media. Some are destined to be winners. Some are destined to wish they had a staff accounting job at Eli Lily or Coca Cola or AFLAC when it comes time to put their kids through college or put their 401k into after-burner mode for the final 10 or 15 years of their work life.
I've had a topsy/turvy week. I'm going back in the next day or two and read again your post (slowly) and I will probably come away with a much more positive attitude about it, but will probably still have some quibbles on what it doesn't do for the would-be stand-alone Progressive Talker Talent.
