The Industry

There have been a lot of things that have come across my mind in the past week or so and although I recognize that I am not even out of my teen years yet, I feel like sometimes I’m way behind. I’ve talked about this before probably at one of my “low points” in this whole “document-your-experience-in-the-radio-industry” project and that is the idea of comparing myself to others.

First of all it sucks. It sucks to have the ability to know what everyone is doing at all times (thanks internet). What I mean by that is it is easier to recognize that you are going down your own unique path when you don’t have everyone else’s lives crammed down your throat on multiple platforms, but just with everything, there isn’t a whole lot I can do about it (unless I delete my facebook and twitter accounts and let’s be honest that’s not going to happen anytime soon). Jealous is not the defining word here and I’m not quite sure what is.

Maybe it was the questionable chinese food I had for dinner tonight or maybe I’m just heading into another (inevitable) funk, but at what point can I put away the tape measure and stop measuring old people for suits, because I’m fully prepared for full-time work in the business now, and I just can’t seem to find it. Now, this is probably where a spiritual guru would say “everything happens for a reason” or “all in good time” but what’s the deadline on those questions, because it’s getting a tiny bit old.

Now that I’ve got my emo-ness out of the way, I think I need to use this blog in a different way for the next little while. I need to use it as a method to hold myself accountable. Set goals on the interwebs and know that if I don’t live up to them I’ll get a stupid internet troll yelling at me for not following through. So to put my goals out there for everyone:

1. Full time work in Industry.
2. Network.
3. Continue to build/market/create new content for The Industry.
4. Make time.
5. Mentally De-Clutter (it’s like an episode of Hoarders in my head).

Although these might not mean much to you, my head feels like it’s going to explode sometimes, so I’m prioritizing. These are my top 5 goals. All are important in different ways and are in no particular order. In their vagueness these goals encompass pretty much everything on my plate right now. 

End of midnight/sleepy/possibly incoherent ramble.

Sweet dreams,

-Mitch