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You might be in radio......if............

Hey.........I know this is not original.......in fact ......I stole it from another discussion board..........
but I am posting it here because I know some/most of the crazies who inhabit this enviroment and I knew you could have a lot of fun with it........ Ken
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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 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 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.
 
I might be in radio... if I hadn't listened to those who were already there in the early 1980's telling me it wouldn't be the best career move for me based on their experience!

I have to admit that they were right, but it doesn't keep me from enjoying radio or this board!
 
Well Ken, many of these are, and have been my life. And I'm thankful it has been.

MediaBoy4Radio said:
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have recurring nightmares about bad airshifts filled with dead air.

Back when we were first married, my wife - who's not in the business - actually had a nightmare about pulling an airshift at my station...and every time she went to put a cart into a cart deck, the deck had been moved and she couldn't find it. (This was 1984 when everything was on cart!) And then the song would run out and she'd have nothing prepared to say.
 
I worked at a mom & pop station where the cart tower was fired off by DoorBell switches! I still have a case of carts and yes I have a cart machine from one of the stations I worked at!
 
You might be in radio......if............You can't fill up your car with gas on the way to work because the gas station doesn't open until 5:00 a.m.
 
You might be in radio if....

You've been compensated for an appearance with a restaurant gift certificate that had about 12 hours left before it expired...
 
You might be in radio if......

You ever received a Christmas "bonus" from the boss that consisted of promotional items that were not given away during the past year.
 
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