On This Day, Forty-Five Years Ago

My long trip in a strange business began

June 30, 1980.

I filled out my first job application.

It was for a small-town AM/FM combo station in Belle Glade, Florida. The FM side played country music. The AM side was wall-to-wall preachers and Southern Gospel. The only other job possibility in town was hauling boxes in a drugstore stockroom, which sounded way worse than sitting in a tiny room and s…