Re(5): New Year's Wishes Posted on January 3, 2025 at 04:48:30 PM by just sayin
Youre right, my daddy who was an ad agency partner urged me not to quit my business major to change schools to Wichita and get a journalism degree. He'd already told me to nix my first choice as a 1960s art/ad layout guy, saying they were a dime a dozen.
But I was already bitten by the news bug, had interviewed gov docking, rfk, covered small town fatal axidents and done afternoon drive news at a 10k watt regional station. I was hooked on radio and did it overseas when I got drafted by my bad timing.
Ten years later, I bailed from radio for TV news and had great fun for another ten years or more. TV news was WAAY more fun. Remember when I told you Larry King said he never regretted leaving radio for TV. Me too but when there's only a few employers in a market and they really don't like same market hiring, we didnt' wanna move anymore, disrupt the wife's career, and the kids' world.
A friend in hospital PR after TV told me, "There is life after television." She was right. You probably saved that story but it doesnt match you favorite story about cubies. I went into computer programming, improved my salary substantially. There's a computer programmer job in every company and at that time, they were desperate for IT/programming/ business database jobs.
Way more than PR jobs which broadcasters tend to go into, and right then it was changing from male dominated work to chick work. I investigated PR in KC but the PRSA had been overtaken by women willing to write copy and plan meetings. Too boring and I wasn't pretty enough, besides. Radio and TV expect to hire talent ready to run, they don't do any career enrichment. TV's only fixated on tonights newscast, and radio... well you know they were developing automation techniques during these years you were selling time from your dining room table!
Youre not on the creative/talent side...when you dis cuvie work and 'just saying' definitions,you forget that you didn't work well with others so did a home solo job. The reason why you repeat your mental mantra is that like your whole career, what you know about broadcasting is what you learned at KFDI and as an outsider. Writing commercial spots is usually done by continuity clerks and women in PR. You don't know as much as you think...I learned the ad business from my dad and spending 20 years or more with creatives. You didn't and that's why your drivel in here has always been ignored. Its no accident that your exchanges always end without any response except from me.
You're no more than a nuisance, Jimbo. I usually say the same thing to you every hear after your 'offensive, mean spirited, otherwise negative, dismissive' bullshit. Too late for you to learn skills and make a living now!
Career planning and investigating their futures is a major key to not making job mistakes. But I had built a good investment program because private enterprise trains their staff and values them--unlike broadcasting. And you sold radio time part time from your house.
I'm just not as impressed with you as you seem to be about yourself. You do realize, this is a private conversation, because this gateway board lost its appeal mostly because of YOUR negative shit, not mine. I think most of them took my advice, not yours. Radio's just one step above working the fast food french fryer...its for kids working their way thru school.
Ya gonna go back to reposting your psychology drivel now? Gotta go, Replies: