Quiz: What's Your Best Post-Broadcasting School Career?

Interested in broadcasting school, but still looking for that perfect career path? Take this short quiz to help you find the perfect career to pursue after broadcasting school!

1. Are you looking for fame?
   1. Sure, I wouldn't mind getting famous!
   2. Not necessarily, I'm just interested in talking about what I want to talk about for a living.
   3. No thanks.
2. What are your hobbies?
   1. Listening to music, buying records, going to concerts.
   2. Reading the paper, meeting with friends to talk about our hobbies, watching sports.
   3. Tinkering with electronics, watching cartoons.
3. Do you work best alone?
   1. All I need is a microphone and an audience and I’m good to go.
   2. I like having someone else to play off of or interview, but it's not totally necessary.
   3. I'd rather be part of a team.
4. What's one thing you could talk about all day long?
   1. Music!
   2. I could just talk all day, really. Maybe sports or politics.
   3. Nothing in particular.
5. Where do you see yourself ten years after graduating broadcasting school?
   1. With my own radio show about my favorite genre of music, or at least in the prime daytime spot.
   2. Hosting a talk radio show, on camera as a news reporter, or narrating my favorite team reaching the winning score.
   3. Running a radio station from behind the scenes, or being the voice behind the commercials.

Mostly A's: You're ready to be a DJ! Music is your passion, and you want to share it with the world. In broadcasting school, you'll learn how to deal with the day-to-day rigors of working as a disc jockey, keeping the audience's energy up between sets and interviewing the stars that come through your station. You're ready to make an impression on the world, so get started now with broadcasting school!

Mostly B's: Radio is your passion, but you might not be as into the idea of talking up the music. For you, there are more specialized careers like talk radio hosting, sports play-by-play announcing, and being a news reporter/anchor.

Mostly C's: You'd rather work behind the scenes, within the radio industry without being the voice between the songs. Broadcasting school will prepare you for non-DJ careers like production engineering, making sure the audio equipment runs efficiently and working in a technical capacity, and the slightly more similar career of voiceover acting.