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“But where, where, where is THAT PLACE?” I wondered.
In Texas, for every 100% plus I gave in my career,
returns (feeling valued, appreciated, and being monetarily rewarded), always fell short.
I hosted a noon talk show for awhile at an Austin TV station. Our ratings were great. The guests I booked were top names in literary, entertainment, self-improvement, and political arenas.
After our ratings came in one spring, I couldn’t believe how well show was doing.
Several days later, however, General Manager wanted to see me.
After all years of my show’s success, he said, “James, I can’t complain about your ratings. That’s good for ad revenue, but I finally got a chance to see your show yesterday. As you know I only have a tenth grade education, never finished high school, started in sales, worked my way up to where I am today.” He beamed proudly, “I didn’t understand it.”
I knew when he said, “I didn’t understand it,” my show was doomed. The GM was standard by which all business decisions at our stations were made.
I wanted to call him, “Idiot,” but restrained myself.
My favorite line in Texas TV came from a female news director who told me, “You have a master’s degree. We don’t need people that smart to do news.” I never worked at that station.
“Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself,” Gracian reminds us.
Know how to transplant yourself!
Finally, I did transplant myself, once again. It was time to move from newsroom and go into teaching; use, finally, that masters degree referred to earlier that wasn’t needed to report news.
“There is a simple answer to question ‘What is purpose of our individual lives?” A.J. Ayer wrote. “They have whatever purpose we succeed in putting into them.”
Yet, if you believe you are being guided by and toward a higher destiny, as I do, use what others know (their gifts and resources) to inform and enlighten yourself.
I’ve also successfully used relocation astrology as an essential tool to follow my guiding star. Through my sessions with Cait Benten,who specializes in relocation astrology, I’m close, very close at last, to finding balance of “right place” and “right work” combined.
“This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.astro-earth-relocation.com/james%20by%20phone.htm http://www.astro-earth-relocation.com
James has enjoyed a career as an award-winning television communicator and as a university professor. He shared meaning-filled conversations with film stars, recording artists, US Presidents and first ladies, state governors, world-famous authors, scientists, and people from most every walk of life.
