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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Career one eighty? How did this come up on the show?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I saw a TikTok about it, and I thought it
was fascinating because I feel like I've had many a
career in my life. And I used to work on
a historic living history farm and now I work in radio.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And that's a very clear one eighty.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Okay, it is, but it's.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
It's it's more like a job one eighty because I mean,
your your job at the hobby farm or whatever, the
historic farm has done a really career.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
That was working there for five years.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh did you okay, did you consider that a career?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I mean I thought museum education was my career. Really okay,
And now you're in Now you're in, I'm in radio.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What do you think you're gonna do after radio? Next?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know? Next me? I want to I really, I
think I'm gonna do that we or mobile thing.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So I'm gonna have to start. Then you have to
be a college student. How they know you're right? I
have a master's.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
I can show them bailis is a fake ID to
get the internship with the oscar buyer.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Wouldn't that be a cool job? What about you? What
if I knew okay. For example, Pat Ebert used to
work on the show, and he went to medical school
and he was only a couple of I don't know
what they call it in the terms of medical school
rounds or a couple of more steps to becoming a
literal physician. He was going to be a physician, a doctor. Hey,
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got a part time job at a radio station in
Jamestown's North Dakota, and then he totally switched careers. I
knew somebody else who was a lawyer. They passed the bar,
and then he's like, it's not for me, it's not
my thing, and he became a radio program director.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That is a total career one eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, And I feel like talking about one eighties makes
it feel less daunting, like, Oh, I have to do
the same thing for my entire life.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We got a lot of responses on Facebook because we
asked on Facebook. Yeah. Stephanie says, I used to be
a hairstylist. I am now an attorney. I can get
rid of your grades and also help you divorce the
person who gave them to you.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So she was a hairstylist, now she's an attorney.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
A journey.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Wow, that's cool because you go to school become a
hairstyle let's figure, and you're gonna do that for many,
many million years.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Amy says I was an at home daycare provider for
nineteen years, went back to college, and now I am
a funeral director.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Uh. Katie says I went to school to be a
physical therapist, and ten years later I'm a pilot.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
A pilot yeow wow, that is super cool.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Wan a switch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Emily says I got an accounting degree, worked various office
jobs at a credit union until I decided I didn't
want to have us a town job. I now load
trucks and enjoy being able to move around, get outside
working with big, heavy equipment.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I even get to drive a semi.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I wonder where like the strike of let me change
this or not let me change this, but like to
go to this thing comes from My dad worked at
McDonald's practically built to McDonald's for twenty something years. That's
why I can't stand it. Now he's a teacher, a
seventh grade math teacher.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's so cool. Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
When I probably about I don't know, I got burned
out on radio probably twenty five years ago. I'm like, Bube,
I've been doing this a long time. I want to
do something else. So I went to a career counselor
and you take a test and like you kind of
like an aptitude or interest test. Yeah, and I forget
what it was, but it was something like chemical engineer
ooh geeze something. It wasn't that, because I could never
(03:13):
be an engineer. Bath is hard, but it was something
like that, totally unrelated, And I actually thought about doing
it for a while, but then I thought, you know what,
I like radio, Yeah, radio is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I would be nervous because, like for you, if you,
I mean, you've done radio your whole life, So if
you did a career one eighty, it would be like
starting from square one.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
From square one, yeah, yeah, it looks.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Like that's what a lot of these people did. Is
kind of just yeah complete when eighties started square one.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Let's find out from you. Maybe there's some people listening
who have got to a career one eighty. We get
somebody on the phone, Jenny Tiffany, Tiffany, we're talking about
career one eighties. Hi, Tiffany, what was your story?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well, when I was like eighteen, I worked in fast food.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
I kind of had a life.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
One eighty.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I was a party girl.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
I went out every weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I drank and did other things, went home with people.
And now I'm a teacher. I'm a mom, and I
go to sleep at eight thirty every night.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I love it of kids, I love it so kind
of a life one day. I think a lot of
people do that. They turn from party people when they
were in their twenties to like very responsible. Thank you, Tiffany,
appreciate that one. There's a bunch of these. If you
got you can use a talkback feature too. You want
to use the talkback feature. If you're like I don't
want to call and be on the phone, then use
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the talkback feature because we're going to use that more
and more. Just open up the iHeart app and use
the red microphone and tell us about your career.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
One eighty This text says my husband went to school
for traditional Chinese medicine to be an acupuncturist.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Now he works in aerospace.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well they're also brilliant too.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Right, exactly, yactly.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I went to school for law enforcement and just had
to take the post test. But I went to being
certified Mechanic for GM.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So, well, that's a switch this Texas. I went to
school to be a vet tech.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
In ten years later, I'm four years into working at
a daycare center.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, okay, dogs to children. Is there a difference? We're
not sure.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Wan Nita wrote in He's one need our friend Wannita,
She said, I went to school to become a phlebottomist and
ended up becoming a CNC machinist. I don't know what
CNC means, but a machine flebottomus to a machinist. That's
pretty cool. There's a bunch of people who were like
totally switch careers. I was a barista for years. Oh,
I think, well, the funeral director. Okay, we did that
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one already. Yeah, here's one. I was three months into
cosmetology school said and ain't for me. Three months in
ain't for me, dropped out for business school.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The person got their license in aesthetics and worked in
the salon for a few years, and now she's a
full time nanny in e dinah, money, money, money, You can.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Make so much money being a nanny and actually in
a dinah, Oh, I may insidered.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Being a nanny before you would be a good nanny.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You should consider that. I'll help you fill out an application.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Okay, great, thank you. Why are you giving it to
me right now? How did you already have this on hand?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Trying to be helpful?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's printed in everything.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
If you got one, lift and tell me about your
career one to eighty.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Here are some talkbacks.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I switched my career twice. The first time, I was
supposed to follow the family business and buy my mom
and dad's coffee shop in Delli, And then I decided
I was going to be a massage therapist. And I
was very successful massage therapist for many years. And I'm
a hospital administrator. I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Hospital administrator. Wow, that's really impressive.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
I went to school for networking, became a network engineer,
and then switched over to cybersecurity.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
And I'm switching back to networking and I don't think
I've ever studied this much. I love it and I'm
really excited to get back into networking.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Okay, cool, cool voice, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What was your career? One eighty?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
When I graduated college, I did.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
L downtown. I used to work in the.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Gava day where my high heels, my nylons.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Shirts, and I did credit card processing services.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
For a bank.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And then when I turned thirty, I quit my job.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Went back to school, had to start from scratch and
became a nurse.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And became a nurse. Okay, I think is it nurse
one of those things you'll always work if you want.
If you're a nurse, you're always going to work. There's
always going to be a job.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
People always dying. We're just getting hurt.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I just people were always dying. I had a couple
more tough bas.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Hey, guys, I'm Caitlin.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I originally went to school to become a teacher, high
school science and math teachers when I was studying.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
And now I am almost three years deep as a
emergency room registered nurse.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Wow, that is one of you.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Is super cool And that's a lot of education. That's
just like taking the temperature and the blood pressure, right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's a lot of.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I used to work in photo for thirty years about
and now I'm into the accounting bookkeeping services.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
How do you switch up and do that?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
See? This is so cool.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I just thirty years doing something like you said, Dave,
like you did radio for pretty much since you popped
out the womb then just switching up at the blank
of a night is something completely different?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Good for you?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
What do you hear your retirement plan will because I
know you're not gonna be able to just like set
at home TSA.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Do you think is going to work at TSA?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Are you going to be a nice TSA person or
me more, you're gonna be like screaming, like, get your
shoes off right down.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I think I think like anybody who probably works in TSA,
you're very bright and cheery the first couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Then after that you've had it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
A couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
For days, first.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Couple of days, then you've had it. It's like I said,
take your shoes off.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I feel like you can work at like a ukulele store.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Well there's not a just saying like you could do
something where it's like you're interacting with people and it's
something you're.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Really knowledgeable on.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Okay, so maybe you work at like a historical bookstore
or something.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I think that'd be cool.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yeah, but TSA sounds like it's kind of like a
you know, it's a a A.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It just it's an open door. What's a turnkey?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's a turkey job because you just you walk in,
you put on the badge, you get a badge and stuff.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Know how much process I would never want to work
at an airport because of the process of having to
get through the airport. You got to park somewhere, you
got to probably shuttle to wherever you need to be,
and then you probably still have to go through security
yourself just to start your job.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's too much. I just I couldn't do it too much.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I can't call a friend of mine who works in TSA.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
So I'm curious because I know, I know people who
work service industry jobs at an airport and they make bank.
But you also probably get to get there like a
half hour before your shift to being sure you get
there on time.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, well I don't know. TSA sounds pretty cool.
You get a matt, stand on and stuff, wave like, okay,
wave people through.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
When you get tired, you're like, he let me do
the sitting part where I just get to look at
the scammers. How many shaky things are in people's suitcases?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Can I tell you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
But my friend who works at TSA, we were talking
one time and he said, people bring shaky things through
the airport all the time. They don't even bat an eye.
They see it in the in the little X ray
machine and they're like next, it's like, Okay, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Another one, another one exactly