>> Work on public speaking.
Take a public speaking class.
Take theater classes because a lot of this is theater, a lot of it is acting.
Get comfortable in your own skin and know that yeah you can become a character
and you can still unplug at the end of the day, but take any,
yet take any type of public speaking class.
Learn how to talk in front of a crowd and just get out there and be part of it.
Be part of what we call a station rat, where you're always around,
you know learning from other people in the business.
Ask questions and also and now a days too, learn the role of how to make Facebook
and how to make Twitter and how to make social media sites work for you.
You know because a lot of that now, you know it's all heading that way
and definitely home computer skills and knowhow, you know, know how to use anything
from Adobe audition to Photoshop to all this stuff
to really make yourself as marketable as possible.
Really the question that really separates the good from the bad, it's a,
a lot of it is you have to be able to think of what is actually going through the speakers
when people are listening to you on the radio, whether it's a morning show like I'm doing
or whether you're just recording commercials or just doing stuff for the online world
or whatever may be and being able to relay that.
It definitely takes a different kind of personality.
I think probably a lot of people come in and they, you know they think they can do it
until they actually see what we do and I think a lot of people,
it can be very demoralizing sometimes, you know they can't get the [inaudible]
because they think it's a big time production, when they realize no it's a lot of times a one
or two man operation and they do everything.
It definitely, you have to be wired a certain way and even growing
up I never pictured myself doing this.
I wanted to do anything, I never thought of myself being an entertainer in a lot
of ways and I think that's what it is.
I think a lot of people we have to be an entertainer, but you also have to be able
to adlib and think on your feet and be able to change on a dime and going
in a totally different direction and I think a lot of people they,
you have to have a certain line think and some people are really good at doing taxes
or being a surgeon or being a doctor, it's not.
I couldn't do it, you know, I can't balance my checkbook.
Do people still carry checkbooks?
I don't know, anyway.
I can't do that, but I can, you know shoot the breeze with a celebrity
and ask them random questions and get them to really walk away from it feeling good.
So that's some, or I can get up in front of six thousand people at a basketball game
and you know, entertain them at halftime.
It's [inaudible] you flip a switch and you do it.
It's a job, so.