10.10: Friday Vibes - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I've got a quick update from the talkback line which
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thirty seconds, I believe is what you get. And we
were talking yesterday Scott about the Robertson County Sheriff who
who still wanted to say, well, wait a second, I
know duy number three, but hear me out, let me
make a case why I shouldn't resign and keep my job. Well,
somebody on the talk back line, let us know that
Robertson County, from a geographical standpoint, is the smallest county
in Kentucky. Oh we we wouldn't have known that without

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without the uh, without the Pseudistracted driver dot com talkback feature. Right,
so good stuff. By the way, did you see that
that that sheriff has decided to go ahead and step down?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh you did well?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean, he really wasn't gonna have a choice. I
guess at that point the choice was are you gonna
do this?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Are you gonna? I guess face even.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
More embarrassment by having the governor actually have to take
time out of his busy day to come like boot
you from your from your position, but again not to
make light of somebody doing something really bad. And just
you know, you're you're you're responsible in that county for
keeping people safe and you are not only driving drunk,

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you're doing it multiple times at a really dangerous level.
Not that any level of it is not dangerous, but Uh, yeah,
he's he's now decided to step down. But the thought
that he like had had the governor not sent him
the governor's office not sent a warning, essentially, would he
have just continue to try to just keep the job
as if nothing happened.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think, right, well, I like the way you put
it yesterday. You've got to have the governor come and
rip your badge. I mean, let's be honest. I mean
that's kind of what was going to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Sure, that's embarrassing, and it's also just a sign that
at times, not just in you know, law enforcement, but
there are people who end up assuming that rules don't
apply to them because of their position. And look, that's
that happens in a lot of aspects of life. But
you know, this is a legality thing, not just rules.
This is something like you're out here breaking the law

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and you're the one supposed to be upholding the law.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
So yeah, no, I understand, you know, if it's a
one off, and I understand I'm not condoning it by
any means, But if we've all made mistakes in life,
and we've all had instances where maybe we are taken
too much alcohol, now this officer, clearly putting people's lives
in risk. It's one thing if you're just late for
work because you went a little too hard the night before,

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But if you're out driving and.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Get behind the wheel, that is a big no no.
But for this police officer too.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
And who are the folks that just said, yeah, we'll
keep them around after the first one.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, that's what I'm hearing.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I don't know what the process was as far as
him like needing to get voted back in or whatever
whatever that is as far as the timeline here, but
it did to be fit as you could expect. Recently,
this became a bigger story because of the outcraft from
the citizens of that county, understandably. So that's that's that's
what you that's what you would expect, all right. So
one of the things we've talked about quite a bit

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in recent weeks and probably always will, to be honest
with you, is the job market and how the economy
is impacting workforce, how AI is impacting things. And uh,
obviously there are certainly, you know, there's a there's a
variety of industries that you would never really think about
when it comes to the interest rate situation. For mortgages.
That impacts not just real ors, it impacts other layers

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as well. So that'll be a continuous conversation with what
we do here at news Radio eight forty whas. But
I did want to share with you an update. Here
is the top ten jobs that employers are hiring for
right now. So if your job hunting right now, the
market probably feels tough for a lot of people with layoffs.
We've certainly seen that here within our organization. Unfortunately it's awful.

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But it's not just here. It's a lot of different places.
And also, I mean, I get really concerned for folks
that I see that I know have valuable experience. I
know that they're not too selective and they've applied hundreds
of times and get very little bites. That's a scary
reality to what the job market is. And again, I
know a lot of it depends on what it is

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you're trying to find as far as a job, and honestly,
like a lot of things in life, who you know,
like that's a huge part when it comes to jobs.
But anyways, right now, here are the jobs that may
not be quite as hard to find because there's a
big demand for them. This is a Monster's new job
market report, and they analyzed tens of thousands of listings
from the third quarter, and healthcare dominates the list, with

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six of the top ten jobs coming from that field,
and the most in demand job right now a registered nurse.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
I believe it, and I believe that I.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Feel like it's in demand. Then I also feel like
it's very it's it's it's a career that many people pursue,
which just again speaks to how important it is. And uh, again,
maybe I'm wrong, maybe there's a shortage of people wanting
to be our ends. But if that's the case, that's
news to me. And so I see why people get
into it for a variety of reasons. You are helping people.
You also can make a great living, have a good career. Uh.

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And obviously there's there's always going to be a demand
for what it is they do. The other jobs are
physical therapist, truck driver, sales representative, and radiology tech. That
was a booming field whenever I was entering the college level.
Is radiology stuff, So not as surprise to see that
there's still a demand for that.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It sounds like physical therapy has always been at the
top too, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Because it's still it's still a baby when you consider
the other positions within that realm of healthcare. But truck driver,
that's another job that's not going anywhere. And I know
many people who do it make a great living. Sales
repers and it can just be that's very general, right,
that could be. That could be a lot of things.
And also there's jobs where you are a sales rep,
but they don't call it that, you know what I mean,
They find a way to I'm often fascinated by the

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way in which we doctor up a job title, yes,
to avoid maybe the realization of what that job may pay. Like, uh,
you know, I had a buddy who one of his
first jobs that he did at a college was a
part time overnight thing he was he was a janitor,
and he actually made a decent, decent hourly wage doing it,

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just while he was hustling trying to find a full
time gig. And his title was he was a custodial engineer.
And I just thought that was I thought that was
awesome that that, Like, you know, you could tell me
that you're that I might I might be thinking you're
making a quarter million a year like that you know,
now I realize what that actually is. Also, this was
more so I guess, just a cute see way of
doing it. But if you worked at SUBA you were

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a sandwich artist.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard that one before. Yeah that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, no, now, but it would have been interesting that
would have taken the custodian made it, you know, director
of custodial engineering.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, that would have been fun.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, something like with custodial affairs or something like that.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, you can, you could, really, it would.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
There's a lot of ways you could doctor it up
to make it sound more important. Not to say that
that's not an important job. It is because not a
lot of people want to do it, and clearly it's
there's a real need, right. But other jobs really quickly
here that are in the top ten. Rounding out this
top ten, uh, speech language, speech language pathologist as as
someone who has a daughter still in speech therapy. Man,
that's a that's a really important field and uh, certainly

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one that I imagine you can make a good living.
Delivery driver, respiratory therapist, occupational therapist, and then customer service reps.
So those are your top ten jobs as far as
the demand right now, and a lot of variety outside
of the one dominant healthcare field right so good stuff.
Let's get to a quick time out. We've got trafficing,
weather updates on the way, a sports update coming up
before too long. Right here, on a Friday, it's news

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