The remaining Conley Commentaries this week are about back to school. If you know someone of school-age, please share these with them.
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – I should have followed my own advice. I didn’t work as hard as I should have academically in school, both in high school and college. I could have learned more.
In high school, like many students, I was distracted. I was working at a radio station by age 15 – my junior year in high school. My father was hesitant to let me start working so young. He didn’t like that I’d be working midnight to 6am on Fridays and Saturdays. But they weren’t school nights, so he agreed. But soon everything was secondary to my radio work. I was working afternoons by my senior year. Sometimes I’d skip my final class to get to the radio station earlier. Studying was secondary. Soon I was also doing the radio station’s countdown show on Sunday night – on air until midnight, then a few hours of sleep until school on Monday morning.
What I didn’t realize was that from my teenage years to now, I’ve done more than 10,000 radio broadcasts. Being behind a microphone would become a constant in my life. It was the school lessons and those learning chances that would come once, and now are gone forever.
I know for many students other things seem more important. There’s sports, and the high school play, and music and hobbies. Those are all fine pursuits. But don’t allow them to swallow up your education.
Remember we are defined by the things we work hardest at. I would have more and better things to say if I worked harder at being a good student.
Chris Conley
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