Believe it or not there are still people
who who you know written to me and
reached out and said they're very still
very interested in going into broadcast
journalism what kind of a career advice
would you give them for today and we're
like being half serious but we're half
joking but we're half serious here like
no you know I think that you have to go
in with your eyes wide open and I have
made sure that every intern that I've
had over the last 20 years as understood
the commitment in terms of time and
effort that has to come forth that it's
going to be nights and it's going to be
weekends and it's going to be holidays
you have to understand that going in you
have to understand the lack of
compensation the bad benefits compared
to other industries you have to have
wrap your brain around those things and
if you can tolerate the ridiculous hours
and if you can tolerate the lack of
compensation and you really have a
passion for what you want to talk about
news sports weather then go for it if
you think that this is going to make you
rich and famous you are barking up the
wrong tree and I think that people want
Fame I don't understand all the reasons
why but I you know and I've experienced
it on a tiny itsy-bitsy level alright
and fame is probably not even the right
word but if I'm having dinner with a
family member or a date or a friend or
whatever and somebody wants to come up
and ask you for an autograph on the one
hand that's very flattering I always
took it as such because it happened so
infrequently but if you are a big time
star and you're constantly being
interrupted by your fans your viewers
you're watching your listeners people
that you have to cater to because
otherwise they're gonna go away that
would be a difficult way to live to not
be able to go out in public so be very
careful of I want to do this because I
want to be famous I want to be on TV I
want to be the next reality TV star I
think that it's it's a dangerous road to
go down and again when we talk about
fame and fortune there is no fortune in
local TV news so you have to go into it
eyes wide open and understanding the
negatives as well as the potential
positives if you're able to feed the
passion for the things you do like to
talk about or made out of sports
