My friend Ben used to be a personal injury attorney in Washington, but now he works at NBC and produces the nightly news.  His father was a lawyer, and he thought that he wanted to follow in his footsteps.  He put in the time for law school, and worked in a personal injury law firm in D.C. for a little more than two years, before he decided that the legal profession was not for him.  He quit his job at the law firm, and took an internship with NBC.  He worked for practically nothing for six months while he learned a new job, and got to know the news industry.  He did such a good job that after those six months, he was offered a full time position producing the nightly news.  He has been working in that capacity for almost a whole year now, and he just called me with some very exciting news.  They like him so much there, that he has already been promoted a few times, and now they are offering him choice of three different positions.  They are leaving it up to him to decide what capacity he thinks he will be most useful to them in.