A Typical Day In The Life Of A MOTIVATED Broadcast Student

By Jeremy Bloom.
3:30 am... my alarm clock goes off... I reluctantly get up, I was at my night job only four short hours before. Take a shower, get in my car, and drive to the 102.3 XLC studio in Waukegan, Illinois.

4:25 am... the morning show jocks Jimmy Novak and Jen Stephens arrive. I'm their assistant and it's my first day doing this specific job at the station (more on that in a bit). We get our coffee, they go into the studio, and I gather sound clips off the Internet for the show.

Around 5:30 am Jimmy tells me that he doesn't need any more sound clips and to come into the studio with him. I eventually am going to have a career on air with radio or television... I spend the rest of the morning hanging out and speaking on air with Jimmy and Jen!!!

The show ends at 9:00 am, I help them with promos and post show duties till about 10:00; off to promotions where I am a also an assistant. I help my director as well as the program director till roughly 2:00pm. Hit the road again 45 miles to The Illinois Center For Broadcasting in Lombard, IL.

I spend the next two hours producing, recording, editing, and sending a sample voice over to a customer of mine from the restaurant I work at. The V/O is for a committee interested in using my voice in a presentation that will be shown to the World Olympic Committee in efforts to have the games here in 2016.

Off to Wheaton for an organizational meeting for the Chicago Bandits. The Bandits are a women's professional softball team, and ICB is co-oping with the Softball Channel to produce all of the Bandit's games as well as a weekly recap show, I'm co-anchor! The meeting ends around 9:00 pm.

Destination, Lincolnshire, IL (60 miles away). I help my friend move some heavy furniture around his apartment, of course he can't decide where it goes it takes much longer than expected. 12:30 am (the next day)... I finally arrive home, but before bed... laundry. 1:30 am... LIGHTS OUT!!!

6:30 am... my alarm clock goes off... I reluctantly get up... Time for school! 21 hour days? 3 hours sleep? All for the chance to speak on air??? ABSOLUTELY!!!