Election Night

If you are wanting to get into this business but don't know if you should, observe on an election night. It is the craziest most insane night there is. Some call it the "Superbowl of news" and I think that is pretty accurate. For me, election night has never been so hard as it has been this time around... This is a small market so literally as the news director I write, edit, produce, shoot and anchor as well as doing everything else a news director is supposed to do. So, we decided we would go live all night. I sat at the anchor desk for 6 hours straight and I produced as I went writing things on a white board and showing it to the director. Sometimes, it feels like no one really cares about the product but me. And that night in particular so many people did nothing but complained... My thought? If you don't want to be here and don't care, get a job somewhere else because there are thousands that would jump at the shot to work in news. And its even more frustrating when you are sitting up there going live with a lack of sleep and have worked so hard just to get everything ready for one night... then everyone around you is complaining that they have worked an extra 3 hours that day. boo freaken hoo!!! This obviously isn't the right line of work for you.
Anyways, thats just a little peak into the life of a T.V. newsie...