Making documentaries of all kinds is a lot of fun. I get to learn about a lot of different subjects, and then turn what I have learned into a story that a lot of other people can learn from. There's a lot of variety in the job. Some days I do a lot of reading, other days I write. Some days there is planning and meetings, sometimes I get to direct a shoot or conduct and interview, and some days I spend editing all the footage down to a short program.
Every day is different.
More often than not, I don't think up the ideas for the shows I work on. Usually someone who already has an idea comes to me and pays me to make their idea into a TV show. Then we send that proposal to all the TV channels that we think might possibly, maybe be interested. But once in a while, the network likes the idea, too, and then they pay Dan and me to make the show. I've heard documentary-making is very freelance oriented.