Consume Product - Arete Network

In college I worked at the IT department and tested out of most of the freshman courses so I didn't have class until after lunch after my English and philosophy courses my first 3 semesters so I was on the morning shifts when all the freshmen were in class and Thursday evening when students either went home for the weekend or were getting ready for parties so I had nothing to do. AudioGalaxy was still active and they had a desktop client I could run that on my computer in the dorm/apartment and queue downloads through their website. I basically lived on AllMusic, which helped me as a DJ for the campus radio station - this was before most radio stations had previously queued playlists with music packages from playlist vendors (as was the case at the local radio station near my second college at which I was a DJ: I just recorded play calls around the advertisements, promotions and bumpers, so if a request came in I checked whether it was in the queue and if it was coming soon I left it in and let them know an approximate time it would play and if not I would look for a song with a similar length which fit the format and would record a new play call with an appropriate time to fit the play length since the station call sign and advertisements would play at the required time). I learned so much.

I also did AV and IT work for bands to record music and live shows and administer their websites. Then MySpace came along then YouTube and it wasn't worth my time for the money since they could do most of the stuff themselves easily - all they needed was a homepage with links to their social media accounts. Plus I had a girlfriend who was in graduate school and I was in my final year and still worked for the university as well as the radio station, and grandma had cancer (she died 2 days after my last final).