how does one parlay something they love into a full-time gig. Why is it our hobbies are always our hobbies? Why can’t we make a living off of something we feel so passionate about? I know a few people do. Donald Trump seems to enjoy what he does. Accumulation is what he does, right? Buying and building. Getting more and more. I guess that must be nice on some level, but I can’t say I would find it very fulfilling. Steven Spielberg enjoys making movies. Wynton Marsalis enjoys making music. That must be a nice feeling. To know that you can positively touch so many millions of people. I get more enjoyment out of running this little station than I ever have from my real job. I never get to speak to people from places like Serbia and Japan and Brazil at my real job. Here I get to play music that I love and talk to people who love it just as much as I do. I can’t fully explain how great it feels when someone shoots an email my way telling me about how they just heard a song they haven’t heard in forty years and how many memories it brought back. That’s a great feeling! When that happens I feel like I’ve really touched someone. When someone writes to me and suggests a certain artist that I have never heard of before and I check them out and I love them, that’s a great feeling too! It’s all about discovery and rediscovery. The internet has a lot of flaws, but the one wonderful thing about it is that now you can meet and touch people from all over the planet that you never would have met before.

Still, it seems like quite a waste, spending eight to ten hours a day doing what you have to do but not really feeling moved in any way, shape or form. There’s this chorus to a song that says, “All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day, put the pieces back together my way.” I think that’s what most of us want. At least, I know I do.