YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...

[Butters]

PLEASE ADD TO THE LIST.....IM SURE MOST OF YOU HAVE A FEW GOOD ONES TO ADD!!!
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you turn up the radio excitedly at the sound of dead air on your competitor's station.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you have 37 unlabeled 15 minute cassettes in your back seat.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you listen to the radio "invertedly", turning up the volume during promos, sweepers, and talksets, and flipping to another station during music.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you swear at the competition while driving when you hear a song they beat you to.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you've ever heard of a "cart".

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you tell someone you plan to go to lunch "coming up next hour".

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you have 125 unopened CDs you'll never listen to but, never more than $3 cash.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you use phrases like "If I was programming the music, I would NEVER/ALWAYS/etc..."

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you have lived in six cities in eight years.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you remember what "When you play it, say it!" means.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you drive a $500.00 piece of crap while the sales weasels have $50,000 Lexus.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you get a memo about how to report overtime and you wonder which overtime is overtime.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......two days off in a row is considered a "long weekend."

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you can recite the five-day forecast from memory.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you work on holidays.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have dozens of tapes of radio stations that play music you don't like.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you listen to a station that's barely coming in.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......your maps are covered with circles and dots.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you are a "seasoned pro" after two years in the business.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have a dozen radios, but you need them all.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have copies of both the album version and radio edit.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have recurring nightmares about bad airshifts filled with dead air.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you interview the governor and drive off in a junker.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO.....At Christmas dinner, you backsell the Christmas presents, explaining that "Unopened ones around the corner, stick around".

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....when the hotline rings you break into a cold sweat.

YOU MIGHT BR IN RADIO IF....your production/remote load exceeds your airshift and your friends ARE NOT in radio when they say you "have it made" working 4 hours just playing music.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you begin to like the music you are playing even though you have been faking it for years.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you can run to the can, drop a load while smoking a cigarette and make it back for the last 15 seconds of a 4 min. song.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you keep telling yourself,"this chick on the phone really might be hot...this could be the one".

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF.... every time you screw up the Program Director is listening and calls in to tell you how bad you are and he misses the 4 hours of dead air your idiot co-worker had.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you're called 10 minutes before a shift starts and told you have to work it and you live 20 minutes away.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF..... you can recite all the spots in a break.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF..... the one time you need the power generator is the one day the electrician didnt have time to hook it up.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you have ever had to call a supervisor more then once on the same day at 3 A.M.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...your chief engineer has ever had to talk you through how to fix a transmitter from over a cell phone.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... the equipment at your station decides to stop working properly and just go to hell on a holiday weekend when no one can be reached.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you recite I.D's and sweepers from different stations just to annoy your friends.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....when your at home and you answer the phone and give the stations call letters.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you answer the phone and tell someone their caller 6

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you do an air shift in your dreams.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...on a holiday weekend, you're the only one at the station.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you talk about how much better your competition's webcast sounds over your stations actual broadcast.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you are on the air every holiday.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you talk to friends in a "radio voice"

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you can hit the post on any ramp in your playlist, but can only sing the hooks from songs that are in your music promos.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you are well into your thirties and have been hit on by a 13-year-old girl on the request line.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you hate everyone's favorite song because it doesn't have an intro.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you actually own white cassette tapes.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you don't know whether to introduce yourself at parties...with your air-name or your real name.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...two months ago when you worked at the car wash you could jog a mile without being out of breath and now it is tough for you to get from your car to the LazEboy.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you make your friends listen to airchecks and they have no idea what you are talking about.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you refer to nighttime as "the weekend"

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO.....if you hear your competition using catch phrases and you pull over to the side of the road screaming, "That's mine Dammit!" - while your kids look at you as if you've finally snapped.

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO.....if you tell your wife/girl/boyfriend, "Coming up next hour we'll be hearing from the inlaws, plus we have a new dinner today you're going to really like..."

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you have found that 7-inch reels of tape DO decay over time when stored in the garage

 

[amguy]

Great list--can relate to many of these. Thanks for the very funny post!

 

[chuckfoster]

and funny because of the steaming piles of TRUTH! Well done.

 

[probuttonpusher]

How could you forget.... every shirt you own either has a station or a beer logo on it!

 

[NHRadio]

Or, if you've never paid for a concert ticket.

 

[Butters]

You might be in Radio if ... you trade out useless promotional stuff for food on the air!
if you have more station T-shirts than dress shirts.
if you go on vacation to another state and visit other radio stations instead of the local attactions

 

[radiorama1]

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...

1. As a kid, you would call your local Top 40 station and request your favorite song, telling the jock on duty "don't talk over the intro, because I want to tape it".

2. You sat by the radio in frustration after not hearing said requested song after 3 hours, despite numerous calls back to station and the jock telling you "No problem... I'll see what I can do".

3. After 3 hours and 45 minutes you got mad once the song was eventually played--- and the jock talked all over the intro--- right up to the post.

4. You do the work of 3 people--- maybe more.

5. At 3 AM, the overnight crew at Dunkin' Donuts has your order on the counter before you even manage to walk thru the door.

6. A Saturday or Sunday seems just like any other day to you.

7. Holidays--- see #6 above.

8. Your car or truck has more miles on it than a space shuttle.

9. You constantly bounce from studio to studio like the Tazmanian Devil to ensure that 3 or more stations "stay on the air".

10. You are the only one in town that doesn't need to wear sunscreen while you are "on the beach".

11. You hope and pray that you won't get laid off this year--- because the Denny's down the street is not hiring, at the moment.

 

[micman]

You might be in radio if...YOU'RE BROKE !

 

[Ozman]

say "that chick is hot" :
Listen to tom-O and Mr. Mike on TOS while volunteering for another radio station
beg your PD for more air time
ask to always do mobile remotes

 

[MatrixMan]

....Your next job after broadcasting involves saying "You want fries with that?"*


*Actually happened to a friend of mine!

 

[12 In a Row]

YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you've heard this a thousand a one times.
"You can get it IF you can trade it."
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you never had an expense account.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you think 50G's a year is a lot of money.

 

[Big Bill]

I still have dreams about dead air, but I haven't worked with CD's in years. Also, my wife says I should get rid of those unopened CD's , but I might actually listen to them sometime.