It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Part XCIV

It was Wednesday, October 5, 1988.

You might be looking back the last year or so of this series, and noticed a bit of a pattern; Mitch deals with issue with his druggie/sex-addict roommate, goes to work at one crappy bar or another, and pines endlessly for something that was just out of reach. You might even think it’s getting a little stale.

And you’d be right. It certainly felt that way twenty years ago.

But things were so close to changing.

After a year and a half of focusing my job search on radio stations and jobs where I might reasonably think I could have a chance at a job – hosting at smaller and mid-market stations, or producing at bigger-market operations – my unexpected success at landing an interview in New York led me to try a bolder approach. I tried a few more wild leaps.

A week or so earlier, I called WOR Radio in New York – sort of the WCCO of Manhattan, at the time.

I got through to the program director. He asked for a tape.

I followed up today. And he liked it.

“If you’re ever in New York…”

Ahem.

“I’m actually going to be in the city the week of October 16th…”

“Great!”

We set up an appointment.

That was two job interviews in New York.

Certainly one of them had to connect. Right?

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