Re(4): Bullying sales slugs are BORING! Posted on October 2, 2021 at 02:00:43 PM by just sayin
Oh no, I explained it multiple times. I left KKRD when KSNTV sold and they had to spin off the radio station. So I stayed with the company, simply walking upstairs into the TV newsroom, and worked another ten years in TV, which was way more fun and I had more viewers in one day than most all the audience I ever had in radio simply because markets have only 3 TV stations and viewers gather around the TV at 5, 6 and 10. And actively pay attention. Most of my radio days were in AM, doing news in the AM.
I moved to computing from what I learned in TV; PC's were just starting out so rather than moving to another market, well a hundred local companies need computer nerds as opposed to 3 or 4 needing TV people. Ya could get a PC job in a week just by emailing your resume to set up intv's. Everybody needed neworking help.
So yes, it was a easy switch without having to sell the house or move the kids outta school. Remember now?
What you don't remember was that I didn't suggest everyone go into IT, it ws to dow hat I did, use radio to put yoruself through skills learning things needed by industry. Not a high demand for voicework, rip and read you called it. I tried to get into PR but it had become chicks work for low pay as the few men left in PR were working in utilities or agencies. I just didn't hve to layout skills yet to do company newsletters but not long after I got into being an IT director/programmer, the internet appeared and I learned webwork.
Don't they say most people change careers 2 or 3 times in their lives? Its true. Now if you are in technology, you can stay in the same organization but the tech companies keep changing names when they get bought out.
It was a nightmare when SW Bell folded and ATT took over. There was ZERO wiring documentation and TV stations were wired in every freakin room! Especially in news and the control room. Satellite dishes multiplied in the parking lots like weeds and yup, it was a great time to be in TV.
Well until cable penetrated and they ate up a lot of ad dollars. I'm surprised you stuck with radio sales because the movement was to cable and the internet.
I got into IT in the first place because that's what I did in the military, where I also volunteered at American Forces radio, the only really fun jocking job I ever had. Admittedly I was a mediocre jock and played a much better straightman for morning jocks on the other side of the glass. Those were great days.
You never knew that, I presume, because sales departments, well. I never really knew many salesmen...they were always out beating on doors to sell commercials and there was rarely a warm body in the department of desks without cubes. Sales was totallya different occupation than what I was in.
You're right, I knew nothing about selling and my media days were best before stations made us start programming to the ratings periods. Till then, we on the program side never even saw an Arby or Nielsen book. That's the way I liked it.
I think that's the way MOST creatives like it. Don't ever tell a guy on the production side they know nothing about radio. We knew ALL about radio. It's YOU guys who didn't know radio because you just sold what we created, like you were selling any product from cars to businessjets to xray machines.
That might not occur to lots of people unless they fly up in the sky and see what business they're in from 30,000 feet. You're not in radio. You just sell stuff. you're in the persuasion business. I was in adult education and I spent my days producing 2 minute movies teaching people about the city they live in. I could literally drive by a big building, wonder what they do in there, and the next day make an appointment and they'd let me in and gladly let me videotape a minimovie.
Beech actually let me land a twin engine plane at Wichita's midcontinent with the PR director sitting next to me. And I got to tour a Titan missile silo and stood ten feet from a nuclear warhead. And "bomb Okalahoma City" from a huge Boeing B-52 similator. And when taking part in a Trauma investigation, I was once in mask and scrubs about 29 feet from a brain surgery. Yeah, they actually used a Craftsman power tool to cut through the skull. I interviewed the Grand Dragon, david Duke, RFK before he was assassinated, governors, cops investigating BTK, nearly got killed chasing a tornado, been in a couple race riots, stuff like that.
And got paid to do it! Course that was before TV went to crap because of --you guessed it---CONSULTANTS who decreed "if it bleeds, it leads." I'm not braggin, everybody in TV got to do s tuff like that. it was pretty exciting work. I coulda never been a sales slug. I was admittedly really shitty at arithmetic but my ad agency dad forced me into an accounting/marketing degree, which I bailed out of for journalism.
Thanks for the memories, it was a fun trip this morning. Gotta go water my seedlngs ... its 9am.