Co-Anchoring Happy Hour Ain't Easy but I Probably Shouldn't Complain (or, Yes They Do Pay Me to Interview Petra Nemcova)

Everyone's watching, to see what you will do
Everyone's looking at you, oh
Everyone's wondering, will you come out tonight
Everyone's trying to get it right, get it right

Everybody's working for the weekend -- Loverboy

Last night, I lost a lot of sleep as I fretted, worried, stressed, and otherwise thought about my job as a co-anchor of Happy Hour on Fox Business Network. It's a new network, a new show, and I hadn't really much of a clue about what doing TV for a living was like when I signed up...

My current least favorite part of talking on TV for an hour a day about stuff I care about -- studying the core of how you present and communicate yourself and your thoughts for an hour a day for months on end...Why didn't I stop that question there? What insecurity did that guest's comment uncover that made me backtrack? I mean, you sit there watching yourself, trying to improve how you interact with people so that it's more enjoyable, more fun...and it's your very job to obsess about doing so. How can I quantify my interviewing skills so that I can track any improvement (hope-for improvement, at least!).

At any rate, like I said, I was really stressed out about my job after a tough-behind-scenes episode last night...and then I come in this morning for another hard, stressful day at work and they tell me here's one of my guests I need to prepare for today:

Grand scheme of things, I probably shouldn't complain, huh?

PS. I wonder if I whine enough and worry about my future enough that maybe I can convince the public and Ben Bernanke to give me billions of dollars to prevent a downturn in my economy. It would be for the good of everyone, I promise -- you know, in the same way that the guys on Wall Street keep convincing everyone that unless Ben Bernanke gives 'em billions to prevent a downturn in their economy, everyone's gonna suffer as a result.

PSS. If nothing else, my quoting Loverboy says a lot about my own appetite for risk...who quotes Loverboy? And their main hit at that? What's wrong with me? Pardon me, I better get back to self-analyzing.