![]() I was listening to Tom Waits’ “ On the Nickel.” Tom has just growled out the line, “The world keeps getting bigger when you get out on your own.” Bawling and broken, I walked into the classroom ten minutes early and my phone rang. I remember getting the call when I was crossing the road on my way to a Latin American history class. I applied even though they said they didn’t hire kids who had already graduated. I worked three jobs to pay for college and the idea of an unpaid internship seemed classist to me, which I still stand by. A radio station that launched while I was in college and played a lot of music that I played on my college radio station had an internship program. After being roundly rejected at every end and with graduation approaching, I knew I would have to move back to Milwaukee and move back in with my parents. I applied at NPR, WPR and, weirdly, I almost became the driver of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, because I thought it would be a funny story. Justin was Music Director at WSUM at UW-Madison. But with my fifth year coming to an end in Madison, I knew I had to apply for jobs. ![]() Basically the only practical thing I’d done was join the college radio station, WSUM, where I was Music Director and had a show called “Hi-Fidelity in Low Resolution” and a show called “Tom Waits and Tom Waits Play Tom Waits.” I’d aspired to be a Music Director in real life, even though the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association told me that iHeart Radio was going to reduce the position down to one position and I might as well go into sales. Before that I’d gone to UW-Madison, where I got degrees in History, Political Science, Integrated Liberal Studies and Gratuitous Drinking. I started at 88Nine in 2013 as an unpaid intern. This Friday will be my last day on air at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee before I move to Nashville and become the assistant program director (APD) and afternoon host at WNXP in Music City, USA, and before I go, I would like to give one more long-winded, heartfelt goodbye. And you encouraged me to be on the air for eight years.
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