{"id":16214,"date":"2013-11-28T00:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=16214"},"modified":"2017-03-24T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T06:19:17","slug":"a-radio-disc-jockeys-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-radio-disc-jockeys-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"A RADIO DISC JOCKEY’S THANKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. As a radio personality, program director, and production director…<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that anyone hired me from the audition tape I made in radio school.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that the Bill Wade School of Radio & Television had us memorize all possible 650 questions & answers so I could pass the exam for my First Class Radio Telephone Operator’s License.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that my first program director didn’t fire me upon learning that although the Bill Wade School of Radio & Television taught me how to play<\/strong> carts, they hadn’t taught me how to record<\/strong> onto them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that after I moved across the country for my first radio job, I wrote “thank you for considering me” letters to three other stations that had offered me jobs (after I’d accepted the first offer)\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026because when the entire staff of my first radio station was laid off one month after I arrived, I called two of the three other stations and both of them offered me a job. (The guy who hired me for my second gig said, “You’re the only person who’s ever written to thank me even though he accepted a job with a different company.”)<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that after my first radio job, never again was I required to sell radio advertising in addition to doing an airshift.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that I found a profession that didn’t require me to dress up for work.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that apparently the only person who heard me accidentally swear on-air at my second job was another jock.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that instinctively I knew it didn’t matter if the station engineer or one of the radio salespeople “didn’t think that bit of yours was funny.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for my listeners.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for the radio pros in “the trades” from whom I (barely) learned production.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for 100% cotton promotional t-shirts.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that upon being promoted to Program Director at my third radio station, my compensation was enhanced with a $50 per week grocery trade.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for the friends I’ve made at radio stations around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for the endless hours of “talking radio” with people who apparently didn’t have anything better to do, either.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for having found a profession where there’s always plenty of room to improve.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for having chosen a profession that made it impossible for me to “rest on my laurels” because it offers absolutely no job security.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that somewhere along the way banks changed their minds and decided to allow disc jockeys to have credit cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that convenience stores around the country decided to let people pay for their cheese & relish smothered hotdogs with credit cards. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for the radio people who’ve done extraordinary things on their radio stations, inspiring me to try, occasionally, to reach for something higher.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful to be part of a community where being “a radio person” means you share a deep bond with other real<\/strong> radio people. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful for having chosen a profession that made me an expert on the best way to load a U-Haul trailer.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful I haven’t had to have a real job since the age of 21.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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