I suppose the common complaint and the most viable one we read as of late is "Why can't I find a job in radio"? Well now, let's put it all in prospective! Simple, your not looking in all of the right little spots.
Let's chat about this, I understand as a lot of us do, your out of a gig, your stuck in Orlando with no prospects and no one from any other local station is calling you or beating on your door wanting to put you on their station in some cushy-little time slot you want and for the bucks you seem to think you deserve, sound about right? That's right....! Meaning and simply put YOU are officially out-of-radio-work-in-Orlando.
Let's play the remember when game. Remember when you got your first start in radio? For most it wasn't easy, beating on radio station door's, call's to the program director's etc, and each and everyone of us just starting out thought we we're good enough to work for the number #1 in town, you wanted it soooo bad you could taste it, and how many jobs you've lost thereafter, perhaps for some two many to count.
Granted a lot of y'all who worked Orlando radio for many years just can't pick-up stick their suitcase's in their little [EDIT*] cars and take-off in search of your next radio gig, you've got the nice house, the pool, three kid's 2 dog's and the wife, (god bless her) who by the way most likely works for one of Orlando's high-end law firms or an even sweeter job working for the school-board bringing in all of the dollar's, but your still searching some three years later looking for that local radio job that will never materialize.
For those of you who are able to pick-up and chase the radio dream you'll find with a little research that there is a whole country full of little Mom and Pop radio stations in smaller towns just looking for talent like yours, granted not a lot of dollars but the radio stations and the radio work is out there if you want it that bad with security to boot, so if your willing to work in small and medium markets you too can be the big fish in a little pond as the saying go's. If you could pull it off maybe a move might be in order, do your homework, do your research, do it for old glory, or at best do it for peace of mind and chase your radio dream.... I assure you the radio work in all departments is available, so pack up and go get-em boy's and girl's....!
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Let's chat about this, I understand as a lot of us do, your out of a gig, your stuck in Orlando with no prospects and no one from any other local station is calling you or beating on your door wanting to put you on their station in some cushy-little time slot you want and for the bucks you seem to think you deserve, sound about right? That's right....! Meaning and simply put YOU are officially out-of-radio-work-in-Orlando.
Let's play the remember when game. Remember when you got your first start in radio? For most it wasn't easy, beating on radio station door's, call's to the program director's etc, and each and everyone of us just starting out thought we we're good enough to work for the number #1 in town, you wanted it soooo bad you could taste it, and how many jobs you've lost thereafter, perhaps for some two many to count.
Granted a lot of y'all who worked Orlando radio for many years just can't pick-up stick their suitcase's in their little [EDIT*] cars and take-off in search of your next radio gig, you've got the nice house, the pool, three kid's 2 dog's and the wife, (god bless her) who by the way most likely works for one of Orlando's high-end law firms or an even sweeter job working for the school-board bringing in all of the dollar's, but your still searching some three years later looking for that local radio job that will never materialize.
For those of you who are able to pick-up and chase the radio dream you'll find with a little research that there is a whole country full of little Mom and Pop radio stations in smaller towns just looking for talent like yours, granted not a lot of dollars but the radio stations and the radio work is out there if you want it that bad with security to boot, so if your willing to work in small and medium markets you too can be the big fish in a little pond as the saying go's. If you could pull it off maybe a move might be in order, do your homework, do your research, do it for old glory, or at best do it for peace of mind and chase your radio dream.... I assure you the radio work in all departments is available, so pack up and go get-em boy's and girl's....!
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