Comments on: Job: Journal PT air talent

By: Cale

Cale — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:01:01 +0000

Oh crap. There goes my gig.

By: notreallyhear

notreallyhear — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:18:14 +0000

Because Working in radio R.O.C.K.S.!

You get to work with a really cool group of people. And it doesn’t matter which side of the mic you are working on. And you are part of a bigger community. If you have any doubts, just look at the postings for Margo Vaughn.

So, that’s why we start out doing it for practically nothing. Or sometimes, nothing. if you love a thing, and are passionate about it, then that’s OK…

I mean, who really needs things like, food, clothes & rent money anyway? I Aafter all that’s show business! :)

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:47:28 +0000

The said:

“I guess what I’m wondering is why anyone would want to get into it these days?”

Because you have the opportunity to say just about anything and, for some god unknown reason, people are listening.

By: The

The — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:51:14 +0000

“…you have to get in this way otherwise anyone could do it right?”

I guess what I’m wondering is why anyone would want to get into it these days?

By: Jac

Jac — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:51:51 +0000

We’re complaining about $8 an hour? How about us who only got in because of internships and got paid nothing. I agree with Ian, and you have to get in this way otherwise anyone could do it right?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:38:24 +0000

Wait…evenings? Ahh crap.

By: tim johnstone

tim johnstone — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:15:48 +0000

Oh Ian. Come and find me. I’ll tell you which of those you are.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:56:54 +0000

If you ask me (and no one ever does), this job sounds exactly like any radio job that is offered these days to “novices”, if you will. To be fair, I don’t know what it was like getting into radio “in the good old days”, as you guys seem to describe it, but from what I’ve seen even with my experience, the newest guys to the radio world pay their dues by accepting jobs that pay practically nothing yet ask for almost all of your time. Taking a low paying job like that is exactly how I got started in this market.

Now, while I don’t think the continued practice of asking the new guys to put in more hours than they are paid is right (or legal), I do think it’s a great deterrent to avoid those lazy ass Generation Y kids who just expect to be handed an air shift without any experience whatsoever.

Again, I don’t know how you had to “pay your dues” years ago, but I can tell you that any person who goes through the gauntlet of getting into radio today will either be a very good air talent, or completely retarded.

I’m still not sure which of those I am.

By: Buster Bronco

Buster Bronco — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:09:27 +0000

This sounds like substitute teaching to me. They want you to be able to do everything while they pay as little as possible and get treated like Rodney Dangerfield (“no respect”).

By: The

The — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:11:03 +0000

Any guesses as to how much this will pay? $8/hour maybe?

Who could afford to have a job like this? Since they want you available at all hours of the day, that pretty much knocks out the possibility of having a full-time job you might want to have alongside this one.