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I Get Paid to Wake Up at 3:30am?
The talks came to a head...looks like we'll be starting the show at 5am (GOD, 05:00 in the morning!) starting on Memorial Day. I'm not certain if it's good that I'll be off that day and will start the 5am thing on Tuesday when I get back from 'Bama. I'm not happy about having to do an extra hour and that hour being earlier than 6am instead of after 9am.
In Nashville, we carried Art Bell from 5-5:30. That was bad because it was a repeat of the midnight hour, but we would interrupt that hour at the bottom to start the show at 5:30. That first half hour of the show before 6am was just chatter for 95% of the shows. It would be some "what did you do last night" discussions and we did a daily trivia at the end of the hour. I think I got in at 4:30 to print out the stories and D would walk in a few minutes after 5am, then we'd be prepped for the show.
In St. Louis, the other producer would print out the stories, so I showed up just a few minutes before 5am to grab my CDs and get in position behind the board. I ran the board for the 1/2 hour news that we did from 5am-5:30. D would come in at about 5am to read papers and such. The other producer would run any errands that D needed to be done because I was busy on the board.
Here in Dallas, I've been getting to work around 4:40am to print out the stories and find audio for Ahmad (board op) to dub for use on the show. D arrives at 5:10ish and we've got 50 minutes to make certain we have all the news/research that he wants and needs along with any audio that we can find for the show. This 5am hour is also vital because Ahmad insists on dubbing all audio into the computer. He doesn't want to play anything off of the minidiscs or audio I burn onto CDs (to each their own, but this can be time consuming).
With us starting at 5am, I'm no looking forward to having to get to the station at 4am to do this prep work. The only thing that can help on the audio situation is to have the audio ready the evening before...but that just won't happen since Ahmad has another job in the evening and doesn't have the equipment to do audio work at home. I'm also not pleased about having to come up with an additional hour's worth of subject matter for us to do. It wasn't fun doing the 4 1/2 hours in St. Louis with 2 producers and I'm not looking forward of doing 4 hours basically by myself.
Okay, back to this whole having to get up earlier in the morning thing. Getting to bed at 8pm or earlier has always required some form of medicinal assistance. I can get to sleep at 8:45-9:30 okay, but summertime's later sundown always makes it difficult. I've been setting the clock earlier in the morning for the past few weeks in hopes of getting used to it going off at 3:30am...but since I end up just laying in bed w/ Headline News on for 20-30 minutes, I'm not certain how much of a help it really has been. :) No, it will help. I wake up in two ways: 1. OH SHIT! 2. "I can stay in for 5 more minutes and just skip_____." I just need a couple of days of waking up in the first way to get me on track. Yet another reason why I'm glad I only live 7 minutes away from the station and not the 25 miles that D has to trek (sure it's 25 minutes in the morning when noone's on the road, but all other times of the day...).
I hereby swear that I will pick a 9-5 or nonmorning show shift on my next job. I will have to have an extreme pay difference to pick a morning show if I have multiple jobs to pick from.
In Nashville, we carried Art Bell from 5-5:30. That was bad because it was a repeat of the midnight hour, but we would interrupt that hour at the bottom to start the show at 5:30. That first half hour of the show before 6am was just chatter for 95% of the shows. It would be some "what did you do last night" discussions and we did a daily trivia at the end of the hour. I think I got in at 4:30 to print out the stories and D would walk in a few minutes after 5am, then we'd be prepped for the show.
In St. Louis, the other producer would print out the stories, so I showed up just a few minutes before 5am to grab my CDs and get in position behind the board. I ran the board for the 1/2 hour news that we did from 5am-5:30. D would come in at about 5am to read papers and such. The other producer would run any errands that D needed to be done because I was busy on the board.
Here in Dallas, I've been getting to work around 4:40am to print out the stories and find audio for Ahmad (board op) to dub for use on the show. D arrives at 5:10ish and we've got 50 minutes to make certain we have all the news/research that he wants and needs along with any audio that we can find for the show. This 5am hour is also vital because Ahmad insists on dubbing all audio into the computer. He doesn't want to play anything off of the minidiscs or audio I burn onto CDs (to each their own, but this can be time consuming).
With us starting at 5am, I'm no looking forward to having to get to the station at 4am to do this prep work. The only thing that can help on the audio situation is to have the audio ready the evening before...but that just won't happen since Ahmad has another job in the evening and doesn't have the equipment to do audio work at home. I'm also not pleased about having to come up with an additional hour's worth of subject matter for us to do. It wasn't fun doing the 4 1/2 hours in St. Louis with 2 producers and I'm not looking forward of doing 4 hours basically by myself.
Okay, back to this whole having to get up earlier in the morning thing. Getting to bed at 8pm or earlier has always required some form of medicinal assistance. I can get to sleep at 8:45-9:30 okay, but summertime's later sundown always makes it difficult. I've been setting the clock earlier in the morning for the past few weeks in hopes of getting used to it going off at 3:30am...but since I end up just laying in bed w/ Headline News on for 20-30 minutes, I'm not certain how much of a help it really has been. :) No, it will help. I wake up in two ways: 1. OH SHIT! 2. "I can stay in for 5 more minutes and just skip_____." I just need a couple of days of waking up in the first way to get me on track. Yet another reason why I'm glad I only live 7 minutes away from the station and not the 25 miles that D has to trek (sure it's 25 minutes in the morning when noone's on the road, but all other times of the day...).
I hereby swear that I will pick a 9-5 or nonmorning show shift on my next job. I will have to have an extreme pay difference to pick a morning show if I have multiple jobs to pick from.