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Name: D.K Shideler
Location: San Diego, California, US

This is the area where I impart my wisdom about politics, international relations, and the state of the world in general. No, I am not deluded enough to imagine this matters much to anyone.

4/02/2007

Where in the World?

So I've been missing, Absent Without Leave for what, more than a month? The question might have been raised, (unlikely, since no one who doesn't already know me reads this anyway),

Where'd you go?

Well I'm glad you asked. Firstly, I am no longer a news director at a northeast Georgia radio station. As of March 11th, I am unemployed. I left SKY 104.1 WRBN Clayton, in order to go west to the land of fruits and nuts. California. Specificly, San Diego.

Why'd you leave?

Really a number of different factors, which sort of came together into the perfect storm. For one, I was reaching my two year mark as a news director where additional experience as a news director, would only really be suited for continuing as a news director, which isn't really what I thought I wanted to do. With that, came my brother's station in San Diego, which enabled me to move, and pay Rabun County rent prices while looking to find a job.

Well now what?

Right now the plan is to find a job, preferably in Public Affairs or Public Relations. There seem to be a number of firms specializing in that kind of work here in San Diego, and the PRSA-San Diego Website has been a big help so far.

Enough about you. What about TheDKRepublic?

Well, part of the reason that I've been absent is I know longer was in position of an FTP file transfer program, which i need because for some reason blogger doesn't want to work right and publish directly to my website. So I used to do everything manually, via the transfer program. The good thing is that provides me with an offline back up. The bad news is, the only place I had one of those was at work, and after leaving work, I lost access to it. The good news, for you guys anyway, is that I bit the bullet, and paid the 30 bucks for the registration, so I know have the same capability here on my laptop. So that means new posts abound.

Okay. But you aren't gonna turn into some kind of Hippie out there on the Left-Coast right?

Absolutely not. In a way I'm excited about the opportunity to be here. Maybe I can bring you Leftist protest coverage, and other neat things like those real blogs. We'll see. At the very least, I'll move from backseat blogger, to side passenger blogger. So that's a step up.

1 Comments:

A-J Wright said...

Good for you. I think its great that you can pick up and move across country and have the adventure that goes along with a move like this. Once you get married, those adventures are more difficult to do.

I know this being I have done the cross country journey many times. Minnesota to California, back to Minnesota, to the Carolinas back to Minnesota then on to Wisconsin to Northern Minnesota to South Carolina to Georgia to Iowa. Where I am now.

And hopefully, I'll be making a move again...somewhere south. Only thing is I now have a wife and kids and moving across the country isn't easy with kids.

Good Luck!

5/4/07 9:48 AM  

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