The Goal of Working after Graduating.

Copied from The Sound of Fury blog, originally posted Sep. 8, 2009:

Welcome to my update!

I have decided that this will be a blog that documents my job search! I will update from time to time, whenever I have anything new to report. My plan is to have a job to step into by January. I will be graduating from Arizona State University in December with a BA in Broadcast Journalism. I have a passion for broadcasting, not so much for journalism. But I have worked a few broadcast jobs during my time in school and I have figured out what it is I would like to do with my life.

A job that I worked here in Phoenix for a year and a half was that of a remote tech for Clear Channel Radio. I worked remote broadcasts and listener events for Mix 96.9, 550 KFYI, and Xtra Sports 910 am. Photos of me being odd can be found in the individual photo galleries. This job came to a close though, I was laid off in January of this year. It was nothing personal, they just didn't want to pay me or any of my co-workers anymore (but they still paid me a nice severance package over 6 months that I wasn't actively making them money anymore, figure that out).

Before that job I had worked as an audio op at a couple of different tv stations. I had a lot of fun running sound for live newscasts, and I thought that I might like to get back into that. Now I am back into TV news production and I realize that I don't like it as much as I liked radio promotions. Suffice to say that I currently work for a local TV station, I don't like it very much so I won't name which one.

I would love more than anything to get back into radio promotions. A friend that I worked with at Clear Channel was hired to do promotions for a Bonneville owned radio station soon after we were let go. Through her, I can see how good of a company Bonneville is to work for, not to mention I feel a bit of longing every time she is working an event. I really miss doing that. Sure the promotions/remote tech job is only part-time, but the manager position is full-time. And that is what I want to get into. Have to be a remote tech first though.

Anyway, I have tried to get hired at Bonneville here in Phoenix a few times, but have not been successful. Ultimately I will have to work for them in another market if they are the company that I want to work for, and right now they are. Bonneville doesn't operate in very many markets, but every broadcast company has operations in Los Angeles. And it is there that I would first like to make my attempts at employment. Bonneville owns one radio station in LA, and they have no TV holdings in the market. The station that I began looking at is KSWD 100.3 The Sound. It's a Classic Rock station, and coincidentally they have an opening for a Promotions Tech. Obviously I couldn't take the job now if they offered it to me, but I searched the website and found a main phone number to the station (not the studio hot-line that everyone calls to make requests). I called and asked to talk with the Promotions Manager. She was not in, she may have left for an extra long Labor Day weekend. I still haven't heard from her, but I intend to call her again tomorrow. I wish I had more to report on this employment lead, but at the moment I don't and I need to have this post up by tomorrow. I will update again after I know what she thinks of me. I will also send her a resume, including some of those embarrassing pictures from my days at Clear Channel!