At an appointment today, I talked with the nurse about my longtime desire to be a radio station program director. I never went down that path, however, because program directors usually don't have much job security and typically have to move from city to city. Also, my desire to be a p.d. stemmed solely from wanting to set a station's musical agenda. I didn't have much interest in managing people.
"Ideally, I'd like to run and program my own noncommercial station," I told the nurse. "I don't really want to work for or with anyone, though. I just want to be a team of one."
"Then, it's not really a team," she replied.
"True," I answered. "It's inherently contradictory..."
...but it's one of the rare times when I could say, "Go, team, go," and mean it.
