Most normal people spend their lives figuring out what wonderful utopia they wish to plant their happy asses down in and take a week to forget about their crappy job, shitty boss, or annoying co-workers. But not Radio People, REAL Radio People schedule their vacations, outside of the book clearly, in areas of the country they could get on the air in.
For example if you are lets say the Midday jock on in Springfield, IL and you have a friend who works in Detroit. While most normal people would sooner die than vacation at Disney’s newest attraction, Kwameland…you would pack a bag and head to Detroit in hopes of getting to fill in for an overnight shift for free, to put on your resume that you were on in market number 9.
Or maybe you are really into the iPhone and spent 3 days standing in line waiting for one, if you were a radio person you would parlay that into getting on WGN in Chicago or NPR to talk about your experience so that you could pad the resume: “Technical Advisor to All Things Considered” or “Tech Geek for WGN –CHICAGO.”
I mean I am sure there is even a certain segment of the population of Radio People that would vacation in LA for the chance to be Ryan Seacrest’s fluffer. Not that you could pad a resume with it, but when this all blows up it might be a funny story to tell in the Best Buy break room.
Vacationing is supposed to be that time where you decompress and recharge the batteries to do exciting radio in your home market. Instead it is spent doing radio in another market just so that you can say you did. Often times in markets you would never been good enough to ever work in…but given the state of Radio today, I am not entirely sure where that would be.
dear ryan,
this picture (in which you appear opening the jacket and that shows more than you should, well … it is true? say, is not mounting, it yourself? I know that this question is kind of strange, but I simply I love you, not me as a person as civilized as you can do something like that !!!!!!!! please answer me (and please say it is not you! me if you say yes, I’m gonna be traumatized pro rest of your life but, anyway, tell the truth).