YafflDaffl
What I used to do when I was in broadcasting school is call into radio shows and record the over the air broadcast to critique my composure, pacing, etc. It really helped me even though I went into behind the scenes stuff and only did sidekick stuff in the Twin Cities.
I did get to do a commercial for Beisswenger's Hardware with the voice of Homer Simpson. I remember my closing line: Will you take me fishing? People told me it was the best commercial the station had ever done. Had an absolute blast making it with my instructor from broadcasting school who did voice production there. I wish I'd tried more to do that type of thing but I was locked in as a producer and successful with it so I stayed with that.
My best advice for anyone is to INTERN. Do it as much as you can. Lots of places run on interns. KFAN in Minneapolis where I started my career was packed with them. One of the old radio hosts used to say the place ran on interns. I was one of them. It's funny to me that one of the guys I interned with now runs the station as PD and makes a great living doing it.
Call whatever station you want to work at and ask if/how you can intern and don't stop calling/bugging them until they say yes. You'll work like a dog for free but it's the best learning by doing education you'll ever get. You'll get to see if you can hang and what you might want to do as radio has lots of things you can do in it.
I did a TV and radio internship. The TV one had me washing out makeup brushes (no joke) while the radio one had me going to games, press conferences, doing man on the streets stuff (got to go out to the church where Prince was marrying Mayte and report on what I was seeing out there the morning of.) Just an absolute blast. Best time I ever had in radio was as an intern.