Simply Red "Something Got Me Started"

While working as an intern at a radio station, my first real conversation with the afternoon host still sticks with me nearly 30 years later. After staring me up and down, he politely asked: "Why the hell do you want to work in this business? My advice is to get out now." That happened in 1995 -- arguably during radio's better days. To this date, I bring that story up whenever young people ask me about working in radio. I make it a point to re-state how someone gave me that unsolicited "advice" when I was an 18 year-old intern. While I never want to discourage someone from chasing their dream, I also feel the need to describe why someone would share that advice to me.