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(81,608 posts)Her ten years of work before she wants to bail does NOT match his 30 years before he finally retired from the "Tonight Show," and he eased out of it by taking Mondays off and doing a four-day week on the air.
It might be better if she just bails completely, OR maybe repackage her presentation for a one-hour or two-hour "That Was the Week that Was"- type of end-of-the-week news roundup show. Air it Friday evening or over the weekend, either live or pre-taped, and maybe if it plays Friday nights, it can repeat on Sunday evenings. You need the time to write books and be a normal human being with your partner, girlfriend? Okay, then. You do THAT full-time. Make a clean break. Maybe do a special from time to time if you don't want to pull the plug all the way out.
Gotta say from personal experience, I worked on the air five days a week for my whole career, and the higher I climbed, the more pressure and demands I faced. And my mom nearly died during that time, suffering the first of the big heart attacks out of several more that would follow. And I put in 20 years of that heavy lift before taking early retirement, because by then I had two small children at home and thought they deserved a full-time mom. And I realized the job(s) and management would never love me or care about me like my kids would.
So... I'm sorry but I'm still forced to sneer at her I'm-too-tired-after-ten-years complaint. AND with no little kids at home who she has to chase around or worry about or feel responsible for, while she's at the studio. Or, hell, set things up so she can do some regular or semi-regular show from a small set at home. I bet NBC would even build one for her.