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"I'm gonna miss this"

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 at 6:00 PM

My final words on a radio station ever. Thought I'd be uttering them when I was about 60, but actually uttered them at 25. Two Sundays ago, to be precise.

Why?
Well, for a number of reasons:

Money
Stability
Comfort in my current job
Needing to settle down

Of course, I've known about these for ages but the knowledge that doing radio was What I Wanted™ and My Dream™ meant that, really, these mattered not. You've got to follow your heart.

Thing is, having some time off work and radio with my recovering toenails meant I had lots of time to ~~watch big brother live and play Sonic on my gamecube~~ review my life. I realised that, actually, radio's not what I'd dreamt. It's all about the money, not about the passion. Of course, that's fine and I'm not trying to say that stations should be the other way round because, realistically, they'd never last as businesses. Maybe you could have both the money-making and the passion, but that's probably only at the big beeb stations; I've not seen it myself and really doubt that in the account-lead world of commercial radio that's going to happen. BBC local radio just doesn't turn me on either.

Surely I should strive to get to the hights of national? Once I've fought through the crap it'd be worth it, and I'm good enough to do it, right?

Perhaps. But I don't know. And frankly I just need to get on with my life. There's more to it than radio.

But why leave SGR Colchester at weekends?
Free time. Simple as that. I really do enjoy the shows but it meant I was working 6 days a week (get into SGR for 10am, prep solidly for 2 hours then get rushed off my feet answering/editing calls, doing links, backtiming and playing stuff out for 4 hours). I'm already enjoying the knowledge that Sundays are My Day now.

As I said, I'm gonna miss radio, but I'm going to enjoy my life more than I have for years.

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"I'm gonna miss this"

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