My first career was working as a DJ on the radio in Ontario and British Columbia.
Since I was also ADHD and a bit on the wild side, this was the perfect job for me, and it looked like this would be a lifetime career...!
Then my dad told me to get a "real job"... and hired me as a car salesman at his Volkswagen dealership!!!! (Sob!)
Here's a letter from another former D.J.
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My first career was working as a DJ on the radio in Ontario and British Columbia.
Since I was also ADHD and a bit on the wild side, this was the perfect job for me, and it looked like this would be a lifetime career...!
Then my dad told me to get a "real job"... and hired me as a car salesman at his Volkswagen dealership!!!! (Sob!)
Here's a letter from another former D.J.
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Allan:
We didn’t just work in radio… we lived it!
And we were lucky... plain and simple!
If you were part of AM radio in the ’60s, or ’70s, you know exactly what that means!
And if we were coming into it today, there’s no way... no way... you'd experience what we did!
It was more than a job... It was the feel of the board under your hands, the hum of the room, the music blasting through the speakers, the smoke hanging in the air, the late nights that turned into early mornings!
It had energy!
It had attitude!
It had life!
What we had wasn’t polished or controlled... it was real! (And that’s what made it unforgettable!)
Radio today is a different animal entirely!
But in the era we came from… it was something special!
Something you had to be there to understand!
We were lucky to be part of it!
Lucky to have lived through it when it was at its peak!
And we should never lose sight of that!
Because what we carry with us now isn’t just a memory...!
It’s a shared experience.
A collective memory that only we have… and only we truly understand!
And that’s something no time, no technology... and no changes in the business can ever take away!
Scott J. Manzi
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