You Might Be A Radio DJ If... 80% of your wardrobe has a station logo on it. You haven't bought Q-tips in over 3 years. You look at your paycheck and say, "That's it! I'm getting a real job!" You call a weekend off a "Vacation." You can smoke a cigarette in three minutes or less. You answer your home phone with the station call letters. A salesperson has ever taken credit for your paycheck. You measure your amount of production in "shitloads." You can post the song, run down the hall, do a full blown "number 2" and be back in 2:40 for the segue. Dinner? Let's see what the receptionist has left in the fridge. You've ever muttered the words, "Yea, I'll try to get that on for ya!" You consider wearing a shirt you have to iron, "dressing up." When listening to music at your home, you only listen to the first 30 seconds of the song, then you switch to something else. Going to a club and not getting paid seems like a useless waste of time. Everyone you know calls you to play their wedding or birthday party. Cheerleading coaches call you wondering how to get that "special mix" of the Jock Jam that they heard on the radio. You turn the radio up excitedly at the sound of "dead-air" on the competitor's station. You have at least three un-opened CD's, two T-shirts, 22 stickers, and five cups in your car. Cueing, segueing, walking on, loose, back-timing, raise, lower, EAS, and dumb-ass program director are every day parts of your vocabulary. You have at least 19 pictures of you with famous people that you haven't seen since. You know the names and artist to every song your boyfriend or girlfriend can think of. You know the words to every song they can think of. You know the re-mixes to every song they can think of. You've slept quite comfortably on the promotion director's easy chair. You were a half hour late for an appearance and blamed it on the directions you got from the sales person. You've had five #8 callers in a row. Your favorite past-time is conferencing three un-knowing listeners on the same line. |