A Gig is a Gig
I’m sure we have all had odd jobs in our lifetime. Jobs that we didn’t end up pursuing as a lifelong career for one reason or another. I suppose it’s a good thing to sample different worlds of employment, not only to find out what you like, but also to find out what you don’t like, and don’t want to spend time doing for the rest of your life! The Bowron Adventure
British Columbia really does live up to its billing on license plates, “Beautiful British Columbia.” Every corner of the province features its own beauty. The East Kootenay country, up against the Rocky Mountains, the Okanagan’s wine country, the rugged Pacific coast, and the big sky country of the Cariboo. All the regions have their own unique features. He’s Back!
Let’s turn the clock back to 1971. That was the year Big Daddy Dave McCormick, one of the original rock and roll disc jockeys at CFUN was brought back home to Vancouver from California to work at radio station CKNW. At the same time, I was hired at CKNW after working at CHNL in Kamloops. The two of us were to take over weekend DJ shows and do split shifts of traffic reports and program operators for Jack Webster’s talk show during the week. I was 22 years old and had to keep pinching myself that I had landed a job at the number one station in the province |
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