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I consider myself lucky in respect to the fact that as a kid there was only one thing I ever wanted to do for a living and spent 3+++ decades doing it. Finishing up school I continued to dream about working in & on radio. Like many special catch-22 occupations you had to have experience to get hired but you can't get experience.......Being.....creatively resourceful I did what many before me did, LIED! Thank God I was in one of the smallest rated radio markets, Great Falls Montana. I went in with no resume or aircheck (it's kind of a "best of" material of your on-air career), when he asked where I had worked before I gave him radio stations I listened to growing up, which were MUCH bigger markets than Great Falls. I was hired for part-time weekend hours & set to start the following weekend. I was given a lesson on running "the board" (it's all of the individual volume control for each piece of equipment: microphone, turntables, cart machines for commercials & jingles) and cueing up records....things like that. After my first weekend on the air I was fired because I was HORRIBLE, but to explain the beauty of small market radio, a week later my "old" radio boss that fired me called & asked me to come in to talk with him. It was the most unbelievable turn events for my new career. They had "let someone go" aka fired them and he asked me to come back on the air full-time! I really was unbelievable lucky & never looked back!