[BC] Graveyard shifts for young DJs a thing of radio's past

Vernon Kuehn vkuehn at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 17 21:43:03 CDT 2010


>Multiple authors created the following:

>> Yeah. And if you check out the article, be sure to catch the very last section.
>>
>> "It's a bygone era"
>>
>> "I wouldn't recommend radio as a career for anybody"
>>
>> They're correct: This is what the industry has come to.

>I hear pilots say the same of their industry.

>I'm an electrical engineer with nearly two decades in manufacturing.
>I'm steering my son as far away from that as possible.

>What's left?
This is a scary topic for our society.  There was a time when taking over the family dry-cleaning shop was a respectable ambition.  I would add the following lines of work that seem to be falling out of favor:

Public school teacher in metro areas.
Family farmer.  (Has been on the list for a long time.)
Truck driver.
Computer programmer.  (as in:  heads-down coders)
Pharmacy owner-operator
newspaper journalist
primary care doctor

The only career with a future is the one I heard about in a small town in Kansas several years ago:  Their local industry was making the front-end of horses.

They were then shipped to Washington DC for final assembly.



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