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So back when I got it in my head when I was 17 that I wanted to be in radio, I realized it might take a while to ever make it to where the DJ’s that I heard were. I was prepared. The first words I heard out of the night DJ who couldn’t wait to exploit me but at the same time give me my big break was, “You gotta pay your dues.”

Today’s WHAT THE HECK?…people who exploit other people in the name of “Paying Their Dues.”

In today’s world, the whole concept of paying dues should be thrown out the window. We don’t have time for that anymore. No one should be allowed to do anything for free. We live in a world where Keynesian economics are at work, and that requires money getting in to your hands so you can pay me for a service that in turn I will pay someone else for their service and so on and so on thus spreading money through out our society.

Not only that, but telling someone to “go make my coffee” or nowadays “go buy me a Starbucks” is just ridiculous superiority “holier than thou” attitude. WHAT THE HECK!?! Radio (and other areas of the entertainment industry) overuses interns more than any other industry. Radio is filled with egomaniacs who love people being subservient to them and doing their work for them. He’d cialis 5mg generika continue to appear in lots of hit television series including Hill Street Blues, Laverne & Shirley, and Sisters. #14 O.J. cheap viagra in canada You Are What You Eat, So Eat Well My Friend… Causes of this cancer are sometimes having a family history of testicular cancer or being born with undescended testicles. levitra side effects But what the ideal method to genuinely know the truth is to consult your physicians and persist on gaining correct details on a tablet that you in all probability are thinking or need to take for your specific illness or treatment you could be having a serious side effect of sildenafil.* Sudden vision loss is a rare but likely side effect because of the decreased flow of. viagra canada pharmacies If an investigation was ever made about this, the results would be pretty staggering. In my early days I remember going out on a chore that included stopping at a supermarket to buy a magazine that the DJ said a listener said she was on the cover of. (I guess that wasn’t so bad because he gave me money for the magazine and I was trustworthy enough to give him back the correct change.)

Yes, success takes hard work and dedication. But what lacks in this world (and particularly in my last place of employment) is recognition for hard work and dedication. My last year in radio had me working for free and for long hours EXACTLY THE SAME as when I started radio 22 years ago. Two things change in 22 years, your waste size and your patience…and hopefully your income.

Bottom line (and I hate blogs that end with “bottom line” some where in the final paragraph) is where ever you work, do NOT give in to that “paying your dues” crap. Work hard the hours you do work (no Twitter, no Facebook), but Saturdays and holidays (unless you get another day in the week off for compensation) are YOUR DAYS and YOUR REWARDS for giving it your all during normal business hours. Yes, go above and beyond, but remember that you will NOT be rewarded and NO ONE WILL RECOGNIZE IT. That’s just the cold, hard facts of today’s world and that’s my minute.

Growing up in California, you get used to constants like beaches, traffic, and smog. Here in the South, the constants shift to churches, waves from cars, and occasionally a colossal WHAT THE HECK?

I’m not sure if I specified in my last blog that I moved here to Alabama to start and run a country station. Yes, a guy from California running a country station…wouldn’t you want a guy from Nashville or at least from some part of Texas? A very cool guy in the company, however, believed in me so my wife and I set out for Huntsville. We were excited about the change and the opportunities.

When we got here we quickly acclimated to the little differences. Where we lived in California was sometimes known as “Bakersfield by the Sea’, so we weren’t total city slickers. The complete absence of Trader Joe’s did upset us, but then at the end of last year Nashville got one which is only an hour and a half hour drive.

The area of California we were from had it’s trees, but nothing like the scale and magnitude here. Plus the cool rivers and lakes. It was upon trying to take a picture like the one above that I came upon my latest WHAT THE HECK?

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So keep an eye on your stuff, now more than ever. These are desperate times. The desperate station I worked for let me go as it desperately tried to hold on to the bottom line. The guy breaking into my car was desperate though all he got was an mp3 player that only worked out of the left ear. Keep waving from your car, but don’t forget there are also people that don’t wave that have no faith in anything we call humanity. Despite some little bumps, I still got faith.

That was a little more than a minute.