Bruce Sallan is
a single father
of two sons |
Facing The Summertime Blues
The prospect of moving again, just two years after our last move, isn’t a likely highlight of this summer. We have some minor work to do on the new house, though my experience is it’s never “minor.”
My younger son, Aaron, goes to summer camp each year and absolutely loves it. He’s developed summer friends that he stays in touch with all year long but only sees during each summer’s four-week camp session. They’re growing up together, it seems, summer after summer. So, for him, that will be the highlight of his summer, plus he loves sleeping and staying up late without the burden of school.
Will, my older son, however, has faced an unexpected change of plans for his summer. Responding to an advertisement on the job bulletin board at his high school, he applied and got a job at a to-be-opened (national) fast food franchise. He went through the whole process of job interview, acceptance, video, and even buying his “uniform,” per their instructions. However, he was fired before he began, due to the poor management of this particular franchise.
It’s a life lesson, but one I’d preferred he learned a bit later in his young life, and certainly after he’d gotten some job experience under his belt.
I plan to continue working on getting my radio show as good as possible and hopefully secure some sponsors, which means knocking on doors and putting on my sales hat yet again. It’s been a long time since I’ve done that, though I wore that hat for many years, in one capacity or another, during my showbiz career.
So, in the inimitable words of the late Eddie Cochran, “Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do, but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.”
Please listen to “The Bruce Sallan Show - A Dad’s Point-of-View” Thursdays at 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., PST on KZSB AM1290 in Santa Barbara or on the Internet via a live stream. For that link and all information about the show and Bruce, visit his web-site www.brucesallan.com. Bruce’s column, “A Dad’s Point-of-View,” is available in over 75 newspapers and web-sites worldwide. Find Bruce on Facebook by joining his “A Dad’s Point-of-View” page: www.facebook.com/aDadsPointOfView.
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