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Hi! My name is Stephanie is Swazo and I am a student with Career Connections with Chuck Dogg and I highly recommend this program to every body because I learnt everything from talking on the air to how to use Pro Tools. And it was just hands on experience that I recommend to everybody. I got interned at Power 1051 a major radio station in New York City and it gave me opportunities and it opened doors for me and hopefully in 5 years from now you will know who I am and somebody will be introducing me as their mentor.
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Couple of days later, this is the first week I was working
there, couple of days later he asked me if I would like to have a
weekend job on the board not on the air just ringing the board. Paying
someone else’s voice tracks. And what was I supposed to say, no. I
mean I was, that’s basically my dream. You know I wasn’t talking on the
air but I was playing music making people happy. And so I
accepted the job and I started the next week. This is one week after I
started the Career Connection. I was on the air, I was working the
board. So I started doing that and I got many compliments from people
who were working there. They were just amazed how fast I was learning
to do the stuff and where I learned it and I would say well going
through this program called the Career Connection. And they were just
amazed at how fast I was learning certain things. So time went on, I
kept working the board and I kept wanting to do more. I wanted to talk
on the air and I kept practicing. I drive down the road, Jimi tells us
we need to train our voice, we needed to rebuild words. So
I would ride on the road and just read every billboard that there was.
All right talk whenever there was something start on the radio, I would
just talk over it and make it sound like I was the disc jockey. I did
everything to make my voice sound as good as possible. And so one day
the program director said to me why don’t you give me an air check date
and I will hear how you sound and may be I will let you on the air.
Okay so I gave him a tape. I spend some time on it to make sure it
sounded good, gave him the tape. Well, I started in January of
this year and right now its May and I have been working since May 1st,
on May 1st I went on for the first time on the air live. I am
actually talking on the air and have been working over nights from 2 to
5:30 in the morning. I have actually been working on the air saying
this is Eric Taylor I am 97 and it’s the coolest thing. I mean this is
something I have been dreaming of and the best thing is kind of like a
na, na, na, na. It sounds like French so I couldn’t do it. I mean that
was and I know it’s a bad attitude to have but I actually did it. I am
actually doing something that I set forth to do my whole life. I said I
am going to do this and I did it and not every people can say that.
There is hardly any that can probably say that in his life. It is the
greatest feeling to actually fulfill your dreams and the Career
Connection was the one that made this possible.
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I really feel this is the way if you want a job in radio that the way to go to is to get into the station and like Radio Connection, Career Connection they will get you in. They did for me.
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I definitely investigated rational schools and it’s obviously a very individual choice about what you are looking to do but for me this was the way to go. I would definitely recommend it because it allowed me to continue to work to have a job and then still do the training that I wanted to pursue in the meantime. So it was flexible in terms of that.
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