It has been difficult coping this year; COVID-19, racial injustices, COVID-19, an election year, COVID-19, Zoom calls, COVID-19, protests, working from home, COVID-19, kids staying at home with virtual learning, and COVID-19. I bet you can relate to this gentlemen’s frustration with what’s really bothering him.

Air Talent: Thanks for emailing me back. Here’s the situation, the job I came here for at the beginning of the year is now being voice tracked from outside our market and they have moved me off middays to a position in the Traffic department. I know these are strange times with Covid, and I’m glad to have a job. But I would not have left where I was had I known this was going to happen.

Coach: I can understand that you are feeling like a fish out of water right now, but did this change affect your money?

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