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

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

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

<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] I grew up on a very small farm in rural England, and in that level of society was pretty much a predetermined path that you would probably go. There was no college, unless your parents could afford you to send you there, and mine could not. There wasn't a huge expectation for me back then. And I had this tremendous desire to be involved in entertainment, and it was not met with a huge amount of encouragement in my family. Somebody once said that 91 or 92% of all actors in England were not working on any one Monday morning. Which was a tremendous deficit if you're trying to go into that kind of environment and you don't have anything going for you to propel you forward. You don't have the encouragement that you need. You don't have the letters of authorization that you'd like to have, and you certainly don't have the training. So you kind of do the stuff you're supposed to do to make a living. And you never give up that, that little tiny nugget that, I know I can do something at some point. And I wanted to be in America so much, so I moved to America. And that was another, Los Angeles, which is where I moved to, which is another, terrifying experience if you were ever going to look at the reality of what you doing because there was no money. I had no money, I had no job, I had no one that was gonna let me, apart from a couple of weeks on someone's couch, there was no one that was gonna help me. I was entirely on my own, sink or swim 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? >> University of Miami. >> All of you? >> All of us. >> We're all friends there. >> Okay, that's where you met? And what are you majoring in? >> Bio-Medical Engineering, Pre-Med as well. >> I'm majoring in Spanish and Economics right now. >> Pre-Medics and English. Pre-med as well. Why do you all have to have double majors? Why? [MUSIC] >> I grew up on a very small farm in rural England and in that level of society was pretty much a predetermined path that you would probably go. There was no college unless your parents could afford you to send you there and mine could not. There wasn't a huge expectation for me back then and, I had this tremendous desire to be involved in entertainment. And it was not met with a huge amount of encouragement in my family. Somebody once said that 91 or 92% of all actors in England were not working on any one Monday morning. which is a tremendous deficit if you try to go into that kind of environment and you don't have anything going for you to propel you forward. You don't know how the encouragement that you need. You don't know the letters of authorization that you'd like to have and you certainly don't have the training. So you kind of do the stuff you're supposed to do to make a living. You never give up that little tiny nugget that I know I can do something at some point. And I wanted to be in America so much, so I moved to America. And that was another, Los Angeles, which is where I moved to, was another terrifying experience if you were ever gonna look at the reality of what you were doing, because there was no money. I had no money, I had no job, I had no one that was gonna let me, apart from a couple weeks on someone's couch. There was no one that was gonna help me, I was entirely on my own. Sink or swim, because of what you've got going for you. The most important thing is never to forget your origins. I remember I was making a film called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the third episode on the coast. And we have a break, I'm a 17th century pirate. We have a break in the movie, we have a lunch. And I walked down to the key, the jetty overlooking the Pacific Ocean. And I looked back, and I see this entire 17th century Japanese castle. Horses, moats, soldiers, guns. The entire 20 million dollar film is right behind me, and I'm working on this, I have lines on this show. And I'm in costume, and I'm walking down at the ocean and I just look out to the ocean and I think, this is a heck of a long way from milking a cow on an English farm. And that's when the whole thing comes into perspective for you. You never forget where you started and how much you owe to the people that helped you along the way. And so the one thing that human beings have always had. And this has not changed in millennia, is we've only ever had 24 hours in a day, that hasn't changed. It's what you do with it. And how we utilize our time determines whether or not when we leave this planet, we leave a little tiny footprint or no footprint at all. Do you want to do what you're presently embarked on doing? >> I feel like I have so many different passions. In my free time, I really like making movies. I love speaking Spanish. And economics, there's so many different options right now, and it's just really hard for me to pick one. Is that your experience too? >> This is what I really struggle with though. I can see myself being a doctor. I can see myself seeing someone help that way but I could also see myself performing on stage or playing music and affecting people that way. And for me, I only have 24 hours in the day. I can't do it all but I want to do it all. Within each one of you there's a combination of abilities and desires which have not actually come together under a title anywhere. They don't exist. As we used to say, and still do, there was no manual so when you are setting out to do your thing when you graduate. Don't go to the end of your life feeling that you couldn’t done something and didn't. Because there's absolutely nothing to stop you there truly isn't anything to stop you from doing it. If you have to leave your country as I had to do. [MUSIC] If you have to say good-bye to your family as I had to do. If you have to struggle in a world that values degrees which I wish I had but, I don't. All I have is me, all I had is what wass inside of me. I'm not gonna say, that's not gonna work, I better go back and do all the stuff my family said I should do or no I don't care, I'm still gonna be me. [MUSIC] It's hard to hit a moving target. Keep going forward and don't stop. [MUSIC] 

Experience

Passion

Perseverance

Regrets

Self-Reflection

Interview

So when you are setting out to do your thing, when you graduate, don't go to the end of your life feeling that you could of done something and didn't, because there's absolutely nothing to stop you. There truly isn't anything to stop you from doing it. If you have to leave your country, as I had to do, if you have to say goodbye to your family, as I had to do. If you have to struggle in a world that values degrees which I wish I have but I don't. All I had was me, all I had is what was inside me and like I say that's not gonna work. I better go back and do all the stuff, my families said I should do or no I don't care. I'm still gonna be me 

Struggle

Nothing To Stop You

The most important thing is never to forget your origins. I remember I was making a film called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the third episode, on the Oregon coast. And we have a break, some [INAUDIBLE]. And we have a break in the movie, we're having lunch, and I walked down to the key, the jetty overlooking the Pacific Ocean and I look back and I see this entire 17th century Japanese castle. Horses, moats, soldiers, guns, the entire $20 million film is right behind me and I'm working on this I have lines on this show. And I'm in costume and I'm walking down the ocean and I just look out of the ocean and I think, this is a heck of a long way from milking a cow on an English farm. >> Yeah. >> And that's when the whole thing comes into perspective for you. You never forget where you started and how much you owe to the people that helped you along the way. 

Culture

Never Forget Your Origins

[British accent] I grew up on a very small farm in rural England. In that level of society, there's pretty much a pre-determined path that you will probably go. There was no college. Unless your parents could afford to send you there, and mine could not. And I had this tremendous desire to be involved in entertainment, and it was not met with a huge amount of encouragement in my family. Somebody once said that...91 or 92 percent of all actors in England were not working on any one Monday morning. So you kind of do the stuff you're supposed to do to make a living, and you never give up that- that little tiny nugget, that "I know I can do something at some point." Don't go to the end of your life feeling that you could have done something and didn't. Because there's absolutely nothing to stop you. There truly isn't anything to stop you from doing it. 

Edmund Stone

Radio Host

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