You will be a better person, and a better professional if your life includes more than broadcast engineering. Furthermore, you have a better chance of being treated by your clients like a real person if you act like a real person. Maintaining a balance between work, family and community will permit you to better serve your client when you are on the job. Short-term business gains can be made with investments in new technology, or aggressive promotion. But in the long run, clients that will stick with you will do so because they trust you, and they feel good about working with you.
Character counts in other professions besides politics.
As you begin a new year, these are some issues to consider and to emplace, if you aspire to be a true professional.