If you're curious about radio or other kinds digital media, reach out to your campus radio station and ask about helping out. Don't have a radio station on campus? Research how to start one yourself! 

Career

Intern or volunteer at your college radio station. 

Experiences are investments; don't regret them. Write down 3 experiences that you think of as negative, then write something positive each one led to or that you learned.

Practice seeing past regret.

The people you keep around you will play a huge part in whether or not you reach your dreams & vice versa. Name those people in your life that come to mind first. How can you utilize their support to succeed?

Identify the most supportive people in your life.

Radio and Television Announcers

Speak or read from scripted materials, such as news reports or commercial messages, on radio or television. May announce artist or title of performance, identify station, or interview guests.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Second Interest High-Point

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Third Interest High-Point

First Interest High-Point

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Announcers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Media and Communication Workers

Prepare and deliver news, sports, or weather reports, gathering and rewriting material so that it will convey required information and fit specific time slots.

Read news flashes to inform audiences of important events.

Select program content, in conjunction with producers and assistants, based on factors such as program specialties, audience tastes, or requests from the public.

Study background information to prepare for programs or interviews.

Comment on music and other matters, such as weather or traffic conditions.

Interview show guests about their lives, their work, or topics of current interest.

Discuss various topics over the telephone with viewers or listeners.

Host civic, charitable, or promotional events that are broadcast over television or radio.

Make promotional appearances at public or private events to represent their employers.

Announce musical selections, station breaks, commercials, or public service information, and accept requests from listening audience.

Keep daily program logs to provide information on all elements aired during broadcast, such as musical selections and station promotions.

Locate guests to appear on talk or interview shows.

Describe or demonstrate products that viewers may purchase through specific shows or in stores.

Coordinate games, contests, or other on-air competitions, performing such duties as asking questions and awarding prizes.

Attend press conferences to gather information for broadcast.

Provide commentary and conduct interviews during sporting events, parades, conventions, or other events.

Give network cues permitting selected stations to receive programs.

Moderate panels or discussion shows on topics such as current affairs, art, or education.

Identify stations, and introduce or close shows, ad-libbing or using memorized or read scripts.

Write and edit video and scripts for broadcasts.

Maintain organization of the music library.

Audio control consoles

Audio playback equipment

Compact disk CD players

Desktop computers

Digital audio recorders

Earpieces

Headset microphones

Headsets

Laptop computers

Microphone stands

Mixing desks

Multi-line telephone systems

Personal computers

Record turntables

Smart phones

Tablet computers

Teleprompters

Touch screen computer monitors

Adobe Systems Adobe Audition

Audion Laboratories VoxPro

Avid Technology Pro Tools

Burli Software Burli Newsroom System

Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet Media Life

Database software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Program logging software

Statistical processing software

Web browser software

Radio Host

So what do you want to do with your life? a doctor, an accountant. people tell you who to be, and what to do. else's road, discover your own. to figure out what to do with their lives. how they found their way. everything yourself when you could learn have been through these things? talk to people that have been in your the interviews we're gonna do up ahead. better from here on out. >> But somebody said one o'clock. >> Sicilian and Greeks [FOREIGN]. this morning before I went to work? >> 30. >> Yes. cuz I did that already. family were entrepreneurs. they were not millionaire entrepreneurs. that's what you do for a living, them to get into something else, good to you, cuz I worked for their cheap labor I guess. left my uncle I went one summer, Cincinnati Gas and Electric company. guys in our neighborhood, Cincinati Gas and Electric. then after I'd see men that were there for and they're not happy. I'm still in the ditch. a shoe store. you wear a suit and a tie, but basement and carry up these dirty shoes. their feet that weren't as clean as you their dirty feet and everything. for one day. be a war starting up over there in Korea. reasoning, according to my family. >> You stay here and you work, and I must have been 21. the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and they told me to keep out of South Philly. of South Philly for? vision of Italian food. when I saw all of the pizza, something I never saw before. the service I'm going to open up That little old Italian church, everybody would always cook down there and have a pizza booth. gonna have a pizza booth, help you, grandma? Sure, come on down. every time they made it. get my cardboard box. but I never wrote many checks, to have to take in some partners. two of the guys said, hey man, he sold out his one by one over, what? the guy had only wanted one restaurant. and have 60 restaurants now. direction, I could see myself being a business man, or a musician. at this point I'm just sort of struggling, dedicating myself to any one thing. you jump into the water. commit to something, and try it. hospitals or various laboratories for see what these guys, these gentlemen or what you think you would be doing some observe them, see if they're happy. other than piling money, >> You only can wear one pair of shoes. >> So don't worry too is like you know, genuine. when you're just yourself, be in a career where I can't be myself. driven and you are obsessed with it, I'll sign it. is better and your better best. be decisive about the things you do in you gotta just take the reigns and see it. >> It's a hybrid between a gymnasium and trip when you just see and react. has a writing background, very into environmentalism. don't die with your music still in you. I didn't wanna like just go get a job. like, what had you studied? the environmental bug or? my parents were hippies and was an issue with the environment, and stuff. that was a little different. woman who was really adventurous and I didn't really know what else to do. >> And I was like sure. I happened to luck into a job working for writing about environmental issues, I never deserved, you know? >> How did you? you couldn't have planned. needed to hire somebody and- somebody who spoke Japanese, it done without speaking Japanese. >> Somehow they fell for got to travel all over Asia and learn a lot about other cultures. me, as a person, where I was different from everyone else. disastrous environmental problems. problems here in the US, big ones, ones where a river turns blue. really changed the way that I well as who I thought of myself as being. he stumbled on this thing in Japan, really explore and see things. even have the chance of doing that, Japan and then bam, he finds a job. and crazy things to happen to you, a position where it's possible. spent some time abroad and learn from perspective to understand that there's you can't ever really change back. how did you kind of handle all of that and help me figure things out. of years, five more years after that. doing wasn't making a big enough dent. I wasn't doing anything to fix them. a break and I took a road trip actually, all sorts of smart people who I knew, or of people out there who have good ideas. people who are working to try and what we're doing now. a couple friends just wanting ideas that we were hearing about. article about this over there. our own observations that we were finding. a couple dozen people read the site. 10,000 people a month reading the site. things that you hate doing. not to just go for it. concept of following what you love you know what I mean? needs is a whole lot of people who they just love it, and to do something in a new way. is a needed piece of the puzzle. people whose work in life is not separate. much that it's just a part of everything. not that many clothes so about what you're wearing. good simple life. awhile. it's always been my big city. we just arrived in Portland, been on the road for already four weeks going to be ending in San Fransisco. you're gonna love this guy. thing that you're giving up your time to you at this point. we can also learn from you. that you're doing to determine within I just love listening to his voice because you're listening to All Classical 89.9. classical radio station. a Buddha's stomach for good luck? doing that for your hair. >> Where are you from? it's a nice place. >> Don't use sir. I might not get back problems. pre-med as well. economics right now. farm in rural England. path that you would probably go. could afford you to send you, and me back then. to be involved in entertainment. of encouragement in my family. working on any one Monday morning, were trying to go into that kind of going for you to propel you forward. you need, and you don't have the letters and you certainly don't have the training. supposed to do to make a living. little tiny nugget that something at some point. much so I moved to America, and which is where I moved to, was another. the reality of what you were doing. I had no money, I had no job, apart from a couple of weeks, there was no one that was gonna help me. because of what you've got going for you. never to forget your origins. called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, on the Oregon coast and we have a break. we have a break in the movie. the jetty overlooking the Pacific Ocean entire 17th century Japanese castle. guns, the entire $20 million. I'm working on this. I'm in costume. I just look at out the ocean and from milking a cow on a English farm. comes into perspective for you. that helped you along the way. beings have always had and we've only ever had 24 hours in a day. it's what you do with it and whether or not when we leave this planet, or no footprint at all. presently embarked on doing? many different passions. movies, and I love speaking Spanish, right now and it's really hard for though. myself seeing someone helped that way. performing on stage or affecting people that way. in the day, I can't do it all, but a combination of abilities and desires. together under title anywhere. still do, there was no manual. do your thing when you graduate, that you could have done something and absolutely nothing to stop you. to stop you from doing it. goodbye to your family as I had to do. a world that values degrees, my family said I should do. keep going forward, don't stop. >> Good to see you. >> Yeah. on our way to California for anything. that's sort of free meaningful life. flash around some. because you really don't know. I didn't know what I wanted to do. in your spare time you'll find time it if you wanted to. all around the globe and visit pbs.org. you know, I think. ever changed over the road trip. of doing things rather than having company that you just keep letting go. to the world is when you you manifest that. 

<p>In Cincinnati, the Roadtrip Nation team meets with La Rosa's Pizzeria founder Buddy LaRosa, who tells them you can't get your feet wet unless you jump into the water. They spend time in the Midwest at Iowa's Corn Palace and at Mount Rushmore, then it's off to the Pacific Northwest to meet with worldchanging.org's Executive Editor Alex Steffen and classical radio host Edmund Stone.</p>

Cincinnati - Seattle

[MUSIC] England, and in that level of society path that you would probably go. could afford you to send you there, and me back then. be involved in entertainment, and of encouragement in my family. working on any one Monday morning. trying to go into that kind of environment you to propel you forward. that you need. authorization that you'd like to have, and supposed to do to make a living. that little tiny nugget that, much, so I moved to America. which is where I moved to, if you were ever going to look because there was no money. one that was gonna let me, apart from there was no one that was gonna help me. because of what you've got going for you. 

Desire

Family

Societal Pressures

Support & Encouragement

Transitions

Never Give Up

So, you're all going to college where? Pre-Med as well. Economics right now. England and in that level of society path that you would probably go. could afford you to send you there and me back then and, be involved in entertainment. of encouragement in my family. working on any one Monday morning. to go into that kind of environment and you to propel you forward. the encouragement that you need. authorization that you'd like to have and supposed to do to make a living. little tiny nugget that much, so I moved to America. which is where I moved to, if you were ever gonna look at because there was no money. I had no one that was gonna let me, on someone's couch. I was entirely on my own. because of what you've got going for you. never to forget your origins. called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I'm a 17th century pirate. we have a lunch. the jetty overlooking the Pacific Ocean. entire 17th century Japanese castle. film is right behind me, I have lines on this show. I'm walking down at the ocean and from milking a cow on an English farm. comes into perspective for you. that helped you along the way. human beings have always had. that hasn't changed. whether or not when we leave this planet, no footprint at all. presently embarked on doing? many different passions. I really like making movies. it's just really hard for me to pick one. struggle with though. that way but I could also see myself affecting people that way. I only have 24 hours in the day. a combination of abilities and desires together under a title anywhere. there was no manual so your thing when you graduate. that you couldn’t done something and nothing to stop you there stop you from doing it. country as I had to do. your family as I had to do. a world that values degrees all I had is what wass inside of me. I better go back and do all no I don't care, I'm still gonna be me. 

Experience

Passion

Perseverance

Regrets

Self-Reflection

Interview

So when you are setting out to do your thing, when you graduate, that you could of done something and absolutely nothing to stop you. to stop you from doing it. goodbye to your family, as I had to do. values degrees which I wish I have but all I had is what was inside me and no I don't care. 

Struggle

Nothing To Stop You

The most important thing is never to forget your origins. episode, on the Oregon coast. we're having lunch, and overlooking the Pacific Ocean and 17th century Japanese castle. the entire $20 million film on this I have lines on this show. the ocean and I just look out of the ocean from milking a cow on an English farm. >> And comes into perspective for you. that helped you along the way. 

Culture

Never Forget Your Origins

[British accent] I grew up on a very small farm In that level of society, a pre-determined path There was no college. afford to send you there, And I had this tremendous in entertainment, with a huge amount in my family. that...91 or 92 percent not working on any one So you kind of do to do to make a living, that little tiny nugget, something at some point." feeling that you could have Because there's absolutely There truly isn't anything 

Edmund Stone

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Edmund Stone

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