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Radio, live transmission...
Sep. 10th, 2003 12:01 amWell, my little existential crisis has taken an interesting turn: I'm seized by a powerful urge to go back into radio. Earlier today I was browsing a site about radio and TV stations in Des Moines, and I had a pang of nostalgia, not only for the radio personalities I grew up listening to (strangely, the site doesn't mention one of my all-time favorite jocks, Jack Emerson of KGGO), but also for my own days in the industry.
I grew up watching way too many reruns of WKRP in Cincinnati and started doing college radio at UNI's station, KGRK. While I was finising my Bachelor's I worked briefly at KXEL-AM, then moved to KFMW. I'll probably write more about my time at these stations later on, but for now, suffice to say I thought it was a reasonable career choice for a while.
I left radio in 1997. I went into Web design, and fell ass-backwards into software testing, which is what I've been doing for the past five years. Lately I'm thinking that there's nothing necessarily wrong with testing as a profession (or at least, it's no more or less fucked than any other technology career), but it's definitely not what I should be doing. It's not my metier, as the little word-of-the-day thing I saw on the Web today would have it. The only reason I'm in the technology industry at all is it pays better than anything I could do with a Master's in Mass Communication. I don't have the moral courage to take a pay cut.
I'm pondering volunteering for KFAI. Either it will help assuage my angst about not doing anything creative anymore, or it will remind me of why I left radio in the first place. I'd say it's even odds right now.
I grew up watching way too many reruns of WKRP in Cincinnati and started doing college radio at UNI's station, KGRK. While I was finising my Bachelor's I worked briefly at KXEL-AM, then moved to KFMW. I'll probably write more about my time at these stations later on, but for now, suffice to say I thought it was a reasonable career choice for a while.
I left radio in 1997. I went into Web design, and fell ass-backwards into software testing, which is what I've been doing for the past five years. Lately I'm thinking that there's nothing necessarily wrong with testing as a profession (or at least, it's no more or less fucked than any other technology career), but it's definitely not what I should be doing. It's not my metier, as the little word-of-the-day thing I saw on the Web today would have it. The only reason I'm in the technology industry at all is it pays better than anything I could do with a Master's in Mass Communication. I don't have the moral courage to take a pay cut.
I'm pondering volunteering for KFAI. Either it will help assuage my angst about not doing anything creative anymore, or it will remind me of why I left radio in the first place. I'd say it's even odds right now.
