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Today I walked into KCRW to see what I could find out about getting a job there. I didn't set out to do this; I ended up at Santa Monica College because I was in the neighborhood and had to let the car cool off before messing with the radiator. So there I was, at SMC, and I figured I'd go ask for information. After all, I was here, and for a long time I'd been thinking about coming down here and getting involved with the station in some respect. In what respect exactly, I don't know--perhaps I'd start as a writer, or perhaps as an HTML coder; or maybe I'd spend my days encoding the sound files into RealAudio files. Perhaps I'd soon find myself editing audio, or editing news copy--or perhaps I'd answer the phones.
As I'm heading to KCRW's headquarters, I'm wondering how to present myself, asking myself (in my best Joe Frank [.rm] inner voice), Should I straight out ask for employment opportunities? No, my hair's a mess, and I'm not prepared to present myself to potential employers today. I mean, look at me--I look like a slob, I'm wearing baggy khakis and a gray sweater--and I don't even have a resume on me or anything. Finally, I decide to ask for volunteer opportunities. So I go in, walk down the corridor to the main office, and everyone stares at me as I enter the room. "Can I help you?" someone says, or something to that effect, and I suddenly feel nervous but manage to stammer out something about wanting to know how to volunteer for the station. I'm pointed to the Director of Volunteer Services, who gives me the information, but only after asking how I got into the studio--apparently it's supposed to be secure. And I'm thinking to myself, Oh, great, they think I've snuck in, that I'm deviant, that I'm some freak who breaks into places to get what he wants. Now I'll never get the job--they'll think I'm the type of person who does weird and irrational things all the time: trespassing secure areas, sneaking around the office at night. The type of person who will rifle through the boss' files when she's out of the office, or steal small office items one at a time: a pencil, an eraser, a stack of paper, a stapler, some paper cups from the water cooler--and as I'm reviewing my memory to recall if I did something untoward, I realize that I should be answering, that I should provide some explanation of how I got into the premises, so I tell them the truth--that I didn't trespass, or sneak past any guard--at least, not to my knowledge. I had simply walked right in. Well, I said something like that, except when I said it it sounded false, even to my own ears. But hey, it was fun being inside KCRW, walking down the same halls Joe Frank had walked; the halls where Bentley and Douridas and Harcourt have spinned their discs, where countless artists have been recorded live; where Which Way LA? and To The Point are produced, where the Bookworm interview the great contemporary writers. It's all good and I still feel good about it, and hopefully this will be the start of something wonderful. Oh, wait a minute--I still need to find a job that pays money first, before I start volunteering for anything.
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