You know, I spend so much of my day job reaching out to press people, only to get no reply back. No acknowledgment, no response, no "thanks, but no thanks." Don't get me wrong, I hear back from plenty of folks. But at the same time, there are those who just don't give me any indication of whether they have an iota of interest in the artist I'm contacting them about.

It's fine. I'm used to it. It's part and parcel of what I do.

Aside from getting to babble on a daily basis about music and get paid for it, I think the most satisfying thing about my job is when a really great press placement happens. I get almost giddy when I see my band's name in print and know that I am responsible for it being there.

So imagine my giddiness when one of the bands on the label I work with, a band called Psychostick, was mentioned in USA Today today (4th paragraph). Ah yeah, pretty darn happy!

That is my satisfaction in my day job. Stuff like that. So today was pretty groovy day job-wise.