As per the advice of the OP. I value the advice of all, so I thank you. Anyhow, I worked one week and I absolutely hated it. I LOVE radio. Like I've left women behind to pursue my career in radio. I love it. I actively pursued getting back into it after getting laid off.

This job... wtf. I applied for a news director position. When I signed the paperwork it said "This isn't a news position so much as a public relations position." That was my first red flag. On my first day I stayed at a City Council meeting until 9pm. Got no story, because I wasn't there to get a story, I was there to be a presence for the radio station at the meeting. I got done at 9, had a 45 minute drive home and had to be back at the station at 5am.

Anyhow, on Friday I had the computer in the "news room" freeze on me mid report. That was the last straw. After a week of reading obituaries, doing stories on blood drives and silent auctions for a high school french club. Half the computers in the place were running Windows 98 and they weren't fast enough to run Windows 95.

So I got home Friday, drove the bar where I had been working part-time (also working part-time at another radio station) and asked to be put back on the schedule. They obliged and I called the lady at the radio station and quit.

The job made me HATE radio. I feel now like going back to school for another degree will be the best choice.

What a week.

 

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you listened to outposters??????

 

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Keep trying. You can get a great job one day in radio

My job is so bad that because of the snow I had to work 17 hours yesterday and it barely pays me enough money to live.

 

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Normally no. It's why I won't be posting a poll on what I should get a degree in if I decide to go back to school.

 

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If you always remember that radio is where you belong it will make the tedium bearable.

 

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I don't see how a week in a lousy job that wasn't exactly as you expected could ruin your love for radio. Maybe you've just realized that landing a good gig isn't easy. Sometimes you have to go through a couple rough years to get to where you want to be. But if it was a dead end, you were right to quit.

I wouldn't give up on radio completely, though... keep looking for opportunities as you're studying or doing something else. Who knows what might come up?

Heladric you sound young. Dont end up like me. Radio is a good business to be in and you have some talent

 

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Sorry to hear about your experience heladric. I actually know a couple radio personalities and both of them went form really enjoying it to hating it over the last decade. You are young enough that it might actually be a good time to look elsewhere.

You could always start a rock band. I'll join if you do. I don't know how to play an instrument so obviously i will be drums.

 

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Jacor/Clear Channel completely destroyed the radio culture in Cincinnati. Fired all of the best personalities and reformatted for pop and talk over anything different.

 

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What city are you in Heladric?

 

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