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A television producer's hardest day revolves around long days of shooting, not getting the right footage and even risking the lives of other people on the job. Hear about this television producer's hardest day in this free video on TV careers.

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My name is Michael Orkin and I'm a television producer. My hardest day as a television producer is tough to come up with because there are plenty of them. They're all pretty hard. I'm going to go with stressful as my hardest. I had shot for a day a story on base jumping and in this story I was getting about six people to climb up a radio antenna with parachutes, jump off, cut away the main chute and have another one open all within eight hundred feet of the ground. That's eight hundred feet from the ground, jump off, have a parachute open, cut that parachute away, fall again, have another parachute open and make it to the ground safely. So the did that for a day and I put it all together and showed it to my boss who said, "It's just not good enough. We need some more." So after one stressful day of watching people risk their lives for my tv show, I had to do it a second day, really pushing my luck. And I'll never... I don't ever remember being quite so stressed out as feeling like I was putting six peoples' lives in jeopardy for a tv show. That wasn't something I'd ever want to do again.

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Television Producer's Hardest Day

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