Acceptance is happiness.

The whole point of a blog is to write more. Laugh at me or mock me or whatever, but writing something has been a dream job of mine for as long as I can remember. Why didn't I pursue it back when I was out of high school? Mainly, the school had the worst guidance department ever. Also, being an impressionable child, my parents were trying to keep me around home, so they were really pushing for Iowa Central, and the guidance councilor's office found out about my interest in music and told them about the radio program, and myself, and I went with that.

I was doing all this radio schooling around the advent of the "shock jocks". So whenever I would tell people I was going to school for radio, they would think I was wanting to be Howard Stern. In all honesty, pretty early on, I HATED being on air. Airshifts bored the hell out of me. I loved doing production though. Writing the scripts and then producing them, was about the most fun I ever had.

My first(and only) full time job in radio, was at the Webster City radio station. When I first started, my airshift was three hours a day. Not bad at all. I then did a ton of production, which pleased me a lot. Then the sales people had me write scripts for the ads, which had a blast doing. They got positive reaction from them and I got to write more. A few months in, we got a new manager. He had this huge thing about me being a "rookie" and that I shouldn't be doing scripts, and that I should be on air as much as possible. My airshift went from three hours, to six hours. I couldn't stand it.

This new manager and I really didn't start off well. On his first day there, he wanted to meet everyone. So when it was my turn, I came into his office and he asked me about where I went to school and whatnot. When I told him what high school I went to, he asked if I knew Andy Jepson. I said, yes I did, I was in his class. He then said "Boy wasn't he a great guy, and man could he play football." My response was "I thought he was a bit of a prick, and could care less about football". (Yes, believe it or not, I used to be much more blunt about things than I am now). The rest of our "meeting" was him trying to convince me that Andy Jepson was a great guy. I'll admit, some of it was probably my fault. But some of it was the manager's as well. He was a tosser.

I could go into the long story about him, and how he practically ruined the station, and the spirit of everyone that worked there. I'll just say that one of his last comments to me was how he could "ruin me." I told him if he meant in radio, go right ahead. I really didn't care anymore.

Anyway, it's been pretty much dead end jobs for me since then. I went back to school for a bit a few years ago, but life got in the way. I've been working on getting things straightened up, and am hoping to go back to school next fall or at the latest, next Jan(2008). When I was doing radio, the only job I really loved was working for the NPR affiliate. Usually to work for them you have to produce a show. Which I think would be great fun to have some sort of show. Not sure exactly what I'd like to do for a show. Something like "This American Life", one of the best shows on NPR. I've also always thought it would be cool to do radio dramas. Not to do them in the old style, ala The Shadow. Or not a call back to that sort of show, such as "A Prarie Home Companion". But modern type stories, with excellent production. Maybe every year for Halloween do one the old fashion way. All the actors in one room, live on the air, with a foley artist doing all the effects for us. I think that would be more fun than anything.

Anyway, the whole point of this is that I hadn't "blogged" for a long time. So here it is.