...I’ve always lived by the adage that luck is weird...that you have some good luck and then “bang” something bad usually happens. But I was never really serious about that.
I had lost an election for Congress...burned down a house...losing precious and irreplaceably personal items and things looked bleak.
Then... I got a call.
NBC News....Chicago.
And “bang...boom”...or whatever...a really marvelously huge..turn of good luck.
Several weeks before the fire I had sent a resume to WMAQ-TV/Radio in Chicago.
The newsroom boss was on the phone and wondering if I could come over for an interview.
The job wasn’t much...a temporary slot as a writer-producer for both tv and radio. If they liked me...it could be permanent.
I moved to the Windy (again) and went to work.
My luck had indeed changed for the better and as you will see...in a few short months...because of my Vietnam experience (two tours) I would be named an NBC News correspondent and on my way to Saigon...for really big bucks!
“Stan Major...NBC News...Saigon” would be heard about four or five times a day..seven days a week for the next six months....not just on one station...but on the whole NBC Radio Network coast to coast. Some television too....but I was THE radio guy for NBC in Vietnam in 69-70.
And a firm believer now in the good luck-bad luck cycle of life.
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Here’s a show on Zeta(FM) as I guested with Neil Rogers in morning drive:
stanmajor@aol.com
This inspires me to be patient awaiting my big break.
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