Former CNNer and current Chief Correspondent for “Inside Edition” Jim Moret sits down with mediabistro.com for a So What Do You Do interview. Moret discussed his new book The Last Day of My Life and talked about his career, including the lessons he learned when he decided not to stay with CNN. Here’s an excerpt:
How long did it take you to find the job at Inside Edition after you left CNN?
That was about two and half years. I think sometimes you get an inflated value of what you can do and perhaps you set your sights too high. You say, ‘I’ve been anchoring for eight years, that’s all I’m going to do.’ But sometimes you have to take a step backwards to move forwards, and it gets harder as you get older. But you know what? Sometimes you just have to do that. That was a great life lesson for me: Don’t take yourself too seriously and think you’re too important. We’re all expendable. That doesn’t mean you don’t have a value, it doesn’t mean that you don’t make a difference, but don’t get an inflated view of yourself. And I think that I did, so I learned a lot about myself and I learned a lot about humility. Sometimes it’s a costly lesson. And that’s how I got myself in the financial mess, because my kids were in private school and bills kept coming and my monthly payments were the same. Would I do things differently today? Sure. And that’s called experience and wisdom and having lived through it.
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Read more from Moret’s conversation here.