Fake it ’til you make it… as a breakfast radio presenter
In a piece that first appeared in Encore, SAFM’s Michael Beveridge tells us how to fake it in the morning.
What does a breakfast radio presenter do?
What the majority of humans all over the world do in the morning: pretend to be happy in front of their bosses on Monday morning and act like getting out of bed to come to work is exactly what they want to be doing. Another answer would be: “I’m not really sure yet.” I think that’s basically the key to having success in most roles, not really having any idea of what you’re doing but having the talent and/or luck to just stumble through the day looking like you’re on top of things.
*taps pile of papers on desk*
cracking interview – the other way to get to breakfast is to work your way up from being a promo b*tch with talent, do mid dawns and every other shift until you get noticed!
Oooooffftttt. i was really admiring the honesty (and sadness) of the reality of how these people get a start in radio and thinking, ‘good on him’,…. then he went and rattled off that list of reality tv show names and something else about ‘belief, ability and there being something special about them’ …. well, that just lost me. too many people dedicate themselves to radio at an early age only to be swept aside by notoriety,… not talent.
nice article all the same,… we gots to know how it is.
Well, now I know Bernard Fanning is a jerk.
Haha! Where’s my ‘like’ button!!
So very true! We need to be friends lol.
Well done to where you are, I’m still stumbling my way through myself, I don’t think there’s anyone who ‘knows everything’ in radio! I hope my boss isn’t reading this…
Davina
Radio announcer 🙂