Looking back Posted on April 12, 2024 at 04:13:19 PM by observer
You do have the mind of a deejay, playing the same or writing the same posts in a tight rotation. You clearly know nothing about programmers or radio either. Radio studios are just big cubicles.
I had lots of fun in the field... lot to be said by getting paid to go wherever the action is in your community, stay as long as yu like, with people eager to talk to you and then go back and tell a quarter million people what you learned, day after day. A lot more interesting than just takin orders for spots.
I dont' know why anyone would be in sales unless they had the best account list they didn't have to work to maintain. Free tickets and lunch writeoffs are youre only benefits.
Is this some kind of contest you're running who had the most fun before retirement? You spend far too much time thinking about me, there bud.
I will simply say I bored easily so I positioned myself so that when I got tired of one thing, I had diverse skills to go do something else til I got bored sampling IT! That's a benefit found in not so many industries. Getting paid to learn or create.
As soon as I started feeling like I was getting to be in repetitive assembly work, I found something else. TV other than studio work is always interesting. Once I'd done it all, I just needed more money because I was pouring money into educations so I did cubicle work. It was quite a surprise to find out how big my retirement nestegg had grown because there wasn't so much of that in broadcasting. Its come in pretty handy.
I do worry about youngers when half the politicians want to take away their nesteggs and make em work longer when they'd really rather kick back and not have to be somewhere every day wasting daylight working for somebody else.
I had enough college in business admin, acctg and mktg I could have gone into sales but it just never did interest me. I don't trash you for what you did, Jim.
It just never occurred to me to go across the hall to sell time. Working with numbers bored me even back in school. For me, TV field work or special projects were the most fun and I think most people who did what I did would have agreed, as opposed to foraging for advertisers and convincing them to give me their money. My dad did that and the only thing around his agency that interested me was those doing the artwork--he convinced me it paid horribly. Admittedly it wasn't so bad designing web sites but the tools were better; besides illustration required more skills than I had with pen on paper and that too was more like assembly work turning out ads to please others. The creativity part was okay, but advertising results are pretty intangible to measure and it takes an element of bullshitting skills to convince clients they're getting their money's worth. You could comment on that, but I know you won't because you never have all these years here. Replies: