My face isn't carved in a mountain. I've never been struck by lightning.
I've never saved a crying baby from a burning house fire nor have I over come my misfortunes in life to acquire a name for myself. I consider myself a writer although all I've written is only pieces of torn limbs of my distraught existence. (a bunch of poems)
It was one of my first radio jobs WABJ 1490 am. It wasn't full time it was board operator mostly. It was my foot in the door. There was a sign up sheet in the hallway. I took all the games shows or elections I could. Of course I had to get a day job to. I took a position at Ricks Body shop in Addison. It was a collision repair shop but I can do body work I can paint. I told Rick when I took the position that radio was my priority and if I needed a day off to do a remote broadcast or something I would give him fair notice. I had better part of a year in when the head body man got sick. I started doing more at the body shop. Rick seen my ability to do what ever he threw at me. I might be doing a red wings game til 12 or 1 in the morning. Then get up and go to the body shop. Rick approached me one day and he told me if I gave up my radio job he would make me head body man which incurred a significant raise. I've been making 5 dollars an hour at the radio station and 6 dollars an hour at the body shop. I know I've always dream about the perfect radio job But isn't this an opportunity?
I quit the radio station to become head body man at Ricks. For a substantial raise. I guess I should have asked Rick his definition of substantial. He sat me down after I quit my radio job and explained to me I'm going from 6 an hour to 6.25. That's substantial?I'm furious I guess I should have asked more questions. I want to punch the dude right in his face. I removed myself by going to lunch and not coming back. I've quit two jobs one for the other. I think my next job was Clyde construction..whats-best-job-i-ever-quit-if-it-bleeds.html
They wrote me up because I didn't go fix the air conditioner at the tower site on Easter Sunday. I flipped over the piece of paper and wrote my two weeks notice on the back. I've been a dumb roofer ever since. I had fixed the air conditioner before because the engineer was on vacation and we were off the air. They gave me a bag of powdered donuts for it. This time the engineer was at the tower site talking with Bob Elliot the station owner who told him not to fix it have me the disc jockey come and fix it. I work for donuts right?
I remember a listener called me and told me I should be using my position in radio to report on the injustice that goes on at the Lenawee county court building. I told him I just don't have time. I make 14 thousand dollars a year. I have to leave here and go to work everyday. whats-best-job-i-ever-quit-if-it-bleeds.html I would talk about my builders on the air and they were throwing roof jobs at me. I can roof a house by myself. And Love doing it. Just ask anyone who's been on the ground within 100 yards of me. I'm singing and working sometimes racing a rain storm. a-roofer-in-rome-if-it-bleeds-it-leads.html
I've never quit a roof job exposing the home owner to the elements. The radio station used people. Maybe that's just my opinion but people with dreams of being successful, famous infamous flowed through at alarming rates. People couldn't work there for to long before they were worried about rent and food. My ability to roof a house by myself carried me. Only the radio station kept firing people and telling me their job was my job now. That's what automation did Donald Trump.They even fired the cleaning people and they worked for free commercial spots. They fired Scott Livesay the production engineer. Now making commercials for all three Friends Communication stations is my job. I don't have time to go roof any more. All these added responsibilities with no more money. Maybe it's just my opinion but I think radio will use peoples dreams.
