I'm starting this blog over again. In some ways, it's a refreshing way to start my career over. But yeah, I haven't entered anything in here since April of 2007.

So now, I'm trying to figure out what to do with my life. I'm 37 years old and I'm facing a mid-life crisis. I haven't found a career that could take over TV reporting as a passion for me. Deep down, I know that I would do TV again if I didn't have to sacrifice a comfortable personal life.

The sacrifices/bads of TV life:
- low pay ($20,000 is good? are you kidding me?)
- start in small markets (obscure cities that are backward, slow, uneventful)
- no guarantee to make it to a city that I like
- dying industry - stations are shutting down or downsizing drastically
- high stress, rampant gossip, jealousy is common, distrust amongst employees
- hard to get hired, easy to get fired
- no ownership into the company. in the end, you're just another brick in the wall. executives and advertisers are the only ones dealing with money

The goods about TV life:
- first hand experience with breaking news
- a new adventure daily! Literally! Not the "so-called adventure" that office people claim
- interviewing is fun... digging into important people's lives, asking what everyone wants to ask
- telling stories on tape and on camera
- going to different places all the time

TV is great because I find excitement in chasing ambulances, interviewing people, writing scripts, and performing on camera. I like the sense of daily accomplishment that I feel when I do TV. Sometimes TV was so hectic, that I wished that I could just report from the news desk.

But what else can I do that will not cause me to feel restless?