Robert Olafson:  

Life Greetings to all. After graduation I just kind of bummed around for a couple of years. Then my Dad ask me one day, "Son, don't you think that you should find a job?" I said "Yes". And set out to find one. I cut my hair and went out in search of the American dream. To be a part of society. To exist. Well, as it was, every job that I applied for asked me if I had any experience. To that I had to say "No". So, How does one get experience if you don't have any job to give you that insight? A sort of a "Catch 22" if you please. I entered the services of our United States Coast Guard and for the next 4 years I gained some work experience. That was in 1973. I was Honorably discharged from the service in 1977 and got hired on as a deck hand on a commercial fishing boat that fish for Halibut and Black cod in Alaska. The work was pretty exciting and I got to see alot of south east Alaska. I did this for two years in the summertime. Didn't make a whole lot of money but was able to sustain myself ok. Next, I enrolled in the Ron Bailie School of Broadcast in Seattle. It was a one year technical course that got me the credentials for operating in radio stations. I became a DJ at a station in Central Washington at KULE. Which was later sold and call letters changed to KTBI. Worked there for 15 years. During that time I also became a Christian. That is a different story that is too long to add here. So, if you would like to read the Testimony of that I can send it to you in a se...Expand for more