If you’re entering the job market and your Mom is trying to make contacts on your behalf, you’re probably mortified. At least, I hope you are. If you’re not, then there is part of your problem. As a manager, I don’t want to deal with my potential employee’s Mom. So Mom, Dad, Uncle and Aunt, unless you’re involved in the business and want to attempt to provide a reference, keep out of it.

Secondly, the hometown in question is a top 10 market.   Her boy needs to aim his sights lower. This country has dozens and dozens of smaller markets that are excellent training grounds. Putting all of his hopes into one city, one station and one show is simply foolish. He needs to be more realistic and cast a wider net. People with far more experience are getting the jobs he wants for good reason. Everybody has to start somewhere and that’s very rarely at the top. It’s arrogant and disrespectful of the rest of us who have paid our dues and slogged through many years to think he can just jump the queue.

And third, perhaps all of his friends have work because they realize the realities of the previous paragraph. If he’s not passionate enough to pick up stakes and move, if he doesn’t have such a burning desire to be in the business that where he works doesn’t matter as much as that he is working in radio, he should be shut out.   Radio is a game of passion. If you don’t have passion for it, do the rest of us a favour and find something else that you are passionate about.