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What did you do when you left radio?

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Nostracorvus

I hear a lot of radio folks had gone into real estate years back when they got out, and I also have friends who work in traffic (vehicular), just wondering what you did when you were or are out of radio. I used to work for AT&T and was a slot tech at some casinos in north Ms.
 
I always wanted MY OWN STATION and after 15 years in the business, I finally got it. And up on the front of the building where the call letters sign goes, mine said S H E L L.

Then I became a multi station owner, a GROUP owner. All my buildings had signs that read: S U N O C O

One of the factors of leaving radio was that the moving, moving, moving was going to cost me my marriage, but it only took six years to figure out that gasoline retailing could result in the same fate.

So I became a Risk Manager (insurance and safety administrtor), then Director of Information Systems for an automobile dealer group, a seller of computers, and finally Business Process Improvement guy. Now THAT was a net job!
 
left for Finance and then that for IT.
I have worked in IT for a Paper Mfgr, Gaming Industry, and now in the Medical field.

I still miss radio.
 
I started a newspaper. I had never understood how to do that. But I just did it. And then it wasn't that bad. It was actually easier than broadcasting. And that was in the days before computers. Gawd, that was a long time ago,
 
Still Runnin' My Mouth...Just On The Phone!

I became a Customer Service Representative on the phone. Currently I work for Sykes Enterprises, a Tampa-based company and it's call centre in nearby Lakeland, scheduling appointments for our client's services at their home.
 
I worked for Enterprise Rent-A-Car and was a call center agent for a while after I left radio full time. I went back full time for a few months while I went to EMT school at night. Now, I still have a part time job in radio (mostly production but I get on the air and play every now and then) and I'm in paramedic school. After I finish paramedic, I'm taking a break from school but planning to stay part time at the station. Eventually I'd like to move into emergency management. I really enjoy medicine and public safety. It's always been my second choice. Radio just played out. As much as I hate to say that, it just wasn't best for me to remain in the field full time. I salute those that to. It just wasn't cut out for me anymore.

Jonathan
 
Wife completed her PhD in Accounting and is on faculty at a Missouri University. I am on staff at the University in the Small Business Development Center. It's a neat group (funded through US Small Business Administration and Universities) that offers business coaching, business plan development assistance, business research assistance and training to businesses and would-be business owners. Almost everything SBDCs do is free.

If your business could use someone to talk to or help you through an issue, it is a great organization. Find your local office by copy and pasting this link in your browser: http://www.asbdc-us.org/index.html

Search by ZIP is in a light blue box in the lower right of the page. Scroll down to find it.
 
Nostracorvus said:
I hear a lot of radio folks had gone into real estate years back when they got out, and I also have friends who work in traffic (vehicular), just wondering what you did when you were or are out of radio. I used to work for AT&T and was a slot tech at some casinos in north Ms.
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Good question because I'm back in after soldiering through radio for quite a while out of High School. In the time period between getting out of radio and me getting back in recently, I've divorced & remarried, wrote a book, worked at three different places (Pearl Drums in Artist Relations & Logistics), and now back in the business still without an on air shift since getting back in. I'm desperately looking for any on air gigs within Western Kentucky/West Tennessee currently, but work as a DJ at a large club in Clarksville, TN and work part time at a large radio station in West Kentucky. Fun, but not what I really want to be doing in radio. The DJ work in Clarksville is fun though!!! Luckily I've still got my finger on the pulse of what's new and happening in radio so its just a matter of time I guess.
 
I started a business that sold traffic (yes including STOP signs) and business signs, two way radios and safety equipment, ran that for 15 years, sold it, then semi retired and went back part time in radio, then bought a travel agency and left radio again. I miss being on air, but CERTAINLY do not miss the politics in broadcast these days.
 
I'm still in radio..had a stint outside of it with a non-compete when I left Citadel Memphis. I worked as a slot tech for Horseshoe/Sheraton, and before that I worked at the Memphis AT&T call center when they switched over from Cingular. Then I went back to 95.3 The Rebel and helped kick that off, then here I am in Vicksburg. I'm back in as long as the business will have me and work with some great folks and I'm doing voice over work on the side. Wishful thinking lends itself to my one day being able to do that only hahah..I've been in radio since 99 and it's all I know and I love it.

I really have no clue what I'd do otherwise. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, if I do, and get some more skoolin' under mah belt. :)
 
A good friend, and fellow broadcaster says about broadcasting people..." Radio and TV were created to give jobs to people who are otherwise un-employable." LOL
 
As an inside joke, GREAT!
As a fact..No. Some of the best business people and all around good folks I
know are in the business. Of course, there are the other kind....but they are omnipresent, no? Thanks JBI
 
jboyd said:
As an inside joke, GREAT!
As a fact..No. Some of the best business people and all around good folks I
know are in the business. Of course, there are the other kind....but they are omnipresent, no? Thanks JBI
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God must love dumb people. He certainly created an amply supply of them!!!

In my broadcasting years I certainly had the opportunity of working with some really great business people. But I must admit I got into two or three situations of working with some of God's favorite people also.
 
Guess eventually somebody might start a thread on "what DO you do in radio?".
You know, for those of us actually making a living in it?
 
Four years later, I'm still trying to get on my feet: get a place to live (I've been staying with friends "in the middle of nowhere"), and get a job. It's tough for everyone, so I'm not surprised that others haven't offered to help me. I'm just looking for an opportunity to earn a living, and find a place to live...
 
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