Then, after graduating from college...

...and having to leave KCOU and go back home to St. Louis, I considered taking an on-air job with an oldies radio station.  I considered it largely because it was in semi-relative proximity to Columbia, Missouri, the town I'd just left.  Granted, the town to which I would have moved wasn't all that close to Columbia, but it was closer to it than St. Louis was.  However, after visiting the town and hearing the station, I thought, "No. Just...no."  The moment that sealed my decision for me was hearing a DJ on that station back announce a song this way: "Levi Stubbs and his Four Tops!  'Ain't No Woman Like The One I've Got!'  Huh!  Gonna trade her in!"  Again, just...no.  As I went back to St. Louis, I thought about how it was ill-advised to consider a job based on its proximity to another town.  After all, I wouldn't go into a store and think, "I should be able to pay for this 20-dollar item with a one-dollar bill.  This one-dollar bill is next to the 20-dollar bill in my wallet.  Therefore, it has the same purchasing power."