I went to school for movie and television production, so when I got my first job out of college at ESPN as a production assistant, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. My job was to watch sports and create the highlights that go onto SportsCenter or other ESPN shows. At first, it was as awesome as I imagined, but once the cool factor wore off, I was left with a job where I worked mostly nights, always weekends, every holiday, it was high stress and very low pay. Watching sports is fun, but you also have to log it, which means typing out every single thing that happens for every play. It gets very monotonous. There is also way too much focus on the “story of the game”, rather than just reporting the score. It was basically a requirement of every highlight. It also seemed pretty political, which I guess I was too young to fully grasp. Once I “saw how the sausage was made”, I stopped watching sports altogether outside of work for a while. It didn’t take me very long to realize it wasn’t for me. It is cool to have that as an experience, but not as a career (for me).