I think the longer you do it, the quicker you get at it. You don't have to spend 80 hours a week doing the job. I also think that, like, you get older, and like, that's just part of the change. Like i i first launched the politic podcast, what, november 20, fifteenth, almost seven years ago. Im bot to be 38. And like, my work will always matter to me,. cause i get to do a job that i love to do when i really believe in it. But it's work. It feels a good job. Every job feels like good job. I'm waiting for the check every two weeks.
Sam Sanders is the former host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute. He hosts Vulture’s Into It, which launched last week.
“I don’t think I ever wanted a career where I was doing the same thing for 30 years. I think that, editorially, I had become someone who was really contemplating what kind of capital-j journalist I wanted to be, want to be, and I was questioning a lot of rules and the structure of what we think journalism is supposed to be, and I think I needed to be away from a legacy institution like NPR, at least for a spell, to work that out.”
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