Maybe Getting a Job in the Phoenix Market After All!

Originally posted on The Sound of Fury blog October 26, 2009:

Well a major breakthrough has come! One of my co-workers at ABC15 told me a couple of weeks ago that his wife, who was the Promotions Manager for 102.5 KNIX at Clear Channel Radio here in Phoenix, was thinking about quiting her job. This was exciting news, but I didn't do anything with it at the time. I remembered her from when I worked there and decided that I would not get my hopes up for her to quit.

Well, last Friday, she put in her two weeks notice. I'm stoked! I was told by my old manager at KMXP Mix 96.9 that she had put in her notice. When her husband had the chance to tell me, I already knew. He was sort of blown away by that. He thought it was funny that I already knew. It's a small world really. I feel kind of bad about trying to leave ABC15, especially since I am starting to fall in nicely with the crew. But managing radio promotions is what I want to do. And here I have a chance to get the job I want and not have to leave Phoenix. I still do want to leave Phoenix, but I don't want to either. It's a real conundrum I'm in. But I applied for the job of course. I mailed a resume later that day.

I'm kind of confident that I can get it, as long as they don't mind my class schedule. But they know me and love me over there. Even Vicki Fiorelli knows me by name, and on one occasion told a Clear Channel Program Director not to worry about the remote broadcast we were on because I was working the control and everything would go fine. really the only thing I have working against me is my 3 days of unavailability. But we should be able to work around it until I graduate in December. It's only another 6 weeks. Really I'm blown away that this opportunity came up.

I had been called in a couple weeks ago by Program Manager Smokey Rivers. He wanted me to board-op (watch the broadcast from inside the studio and make sure all the legal FCC stuff happens) two days a week. Unfortunately I did not have the time free during the shift that he wanted me for. And I do not have the freedom to rearrange my schedule to open the time up. I was sad that I had to turn the job down, but for the pay that job would give I would not have been able to afford to quit 15. If I get this job then I will be able to quit. I would be making more money than I am now. I would be making enough money to call this my job after I graduate. I think this is important. I'm kind of in a position now that if I can't get on full-time at 15 after I graduate then I'm gonna have to get another job that pays more. And that might mean quitting 15 if I have to. I simply am going to need more money, student loan payments don't pay themselves, and what I'm getting now is not enough to even cover those. Not to mention my other bills that I am already paying. This is also why I had to turn down the job at Amp in L.A.

On Saturday my co-worker's wife came to 15 after she got off. She had been working an event at the fair. She came to see him. And we finally saw each other, and she remembered who I was. I am going to their halloween party this Saturday, and I'm sure that by now she knows I sent a resume for the job. He's hoping I can take over running audio for him here pretty soon because he hates it. And I am starting to make friends with the production crew. I would feel bad to leave them behind, but I gotta think about good 'ol number 1 too. This is my career and I don't want to miss out on it. My chance is here and now.

As much as I want to build my experience the old-fashioned way, I might not have too!