20/10/2026
My greatest failure remains to be the short lived time in Kalgoorlie (about 3 months). I hated it there. Being on minimum wage in a mining town was no fun. It’d be like doing this job in Headland or Karratha now… no thanks.
It was a bad fit from the start, especially when the previous guy in my spot was so beloved. It was like Jesus left and you got a snivelling crackhead with AIDS instead (which is how it felt internally)… I always told to be more like that guy… It pi**ed me off so much I started to pretty much rail against everything.
I made my feelings known in a blog post and it got me fired. Incredibly Stupid stuff from me, but absolutely self-destructive, and I was glad to go. I left town that day… and never looked back.
This is where my career should’ve ended. A heaving flaming disaster, which was mostly my fault. 🤦🏻♂️ It didn’t and Taree happened 4 years later.
This was my greatest failure… but not everything is roses and cake. This was a Superpit and I earned this L.
Anyway this is a big part of the 25 years of Radio. The one I learned from the most.