18. What did you do for a radio station as a young man?
I was working in radio and collecting a pay check with taxes taken out of it when I was 12 years old... of course, I got all of the taxes back in a refund at the years end but I was expecting my check to be for one amount and it was for another.
Anyway....I was in Junior High School and we went to our Music class and on this day there was a guy there from the local radio station. He spoke to our class about his job and what it encompassed and about careers in the industry. I was always intrigued by radio...when I was just a kid I had two steroes and I would "pretend" to be a DJ at home....when I told him this story he invited me and a few friends to come down and take a tour one day. We went there and within about 2 hours I was sitting in the DJ chair "running the board"..which means I was doing everything a DJ does except opening the microphone.
We all put our heads together that day and decided that we would start a Saturday Morning Radio show called "Kid's are DJ's too" and my friends and I would play some music and do some news stories targetted to the local kids. We covered sports and events at the schools and such and this little show just took off.
From there, I ended up working in radio for the next bunch of years. I was still in High School and working in radio full time. I have worked the morning drive show at one of the largest radio stations in the South East United States and help the position of Music Director and have worked in Sales. I decided a long time ago that it was not the type of industry that I wanted to rely on for the my long term income, but I have always stayd very close to the business.
--T