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I did the exact opposite. I ran my own catering company(6 figures as well) and when the rescission hit lost a lot of my clients, and did not want to go back to 10 hour days at $9 hr. Went to school and i am working on my BS for Network Design and Admin.

Word of advice, buy your own tools , never let anybody borrow them while you are not there. Not saying people with steal them, but people tend to be more careless with somebody else knives and such.

Buy Birkenstock shoes, closed heel preferably, yes they cost a princely sum but your knee's will thank you and you will get 2 to 3 years out of them.

Once you get up to a line cook position you have to deal with the same things as IT. Work Load (i.e. making X sauce for Y dish before you go home)

People are the biggest soul crusher most of the time. You will get to a point where you will look at the schedule and see Jon is working the station before you and you know he did 0 prep work so you will spend the first part of your shift doing his prep and then having to do you prep at the end of the night.

Try to find some type of outlet for the post shift energy, most people use pot or other drugs, alcohol is a big one as well.

and just remember you are going to work in an asylum in most places.

I honestly hope you are working in a good shop, They are extremely hard to find. Good luck to you

This sounds really cool. I have no knowledge of the radio or news industry so i apologize if my questions are a bit odd

1. As answered earlier you attend a lot of local governmental meetings for your information. Do you also work on or try to do Human interest pieces or mostly? For example, going beyond reporting "The local 4H club took 2nd place in Best looking Dairy Cow." And perhaps telling the story of the road that led to the 2nd place win.

2. Are you just the Director or are you on Air as well?