{"id":3404,"date":"2008-10-05T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2008-10-03T21:07:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:07:28","slug":"it-was-twenty-years-ago-today-part-xciv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Part XCIV"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was Wednesday, October 5, 1988.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And you’d be right. It certainly felt that way twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

But things were so <\/em>close to changing.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> led me to try a bolder approach. I tried a few more wild leaps.<\/p>\n

A week or so earlier, I called WOR Radio in New York – sort of the WCCO of Manhattan, at the time.<\/p>\n

I got through to the program director. He asked for a tape.<\/p>\n

I followed up today. And he liked it.<\/p>\n

“If you’re ever in New York…”<\/p>\n

Ahem.<\/p>\n

“I’m actually going to be in the city the week of October 16th…”<\/p>\n

“Great!”<\/p>\n

We set up an appointment.<\/p>\n

That was two <\/em>job interviews in New York.<\/p>\n

Certainly one <\/em>of them had to connect. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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