Arianna: Hi, what’s your name?
Mitch: Mitch Keiser.
Arianna: Hi Mitch, what do you do for a living?
Mitch: I work for Pro Football Focus. I’m a college football analyst for PFF here in Cincinnati.
Arianna: What’s your favorite part about your job?
Mitch: Getting to watch every college football game and then write about it later on. I write articles covering college football.
Arianna: And what’s your favorite article you’ve written?
Mitch: I wrote an article last fall about why Michael Penix should have won the Heisman. I was pretty happy about it and then he played really well, so that’s probably my favorite article.
Arianna: How many hours a week do you work?
Mitch: 40. Sometimes more in the season. Summertimes you get probably less than 40 ‘cuz it’s off-season, and then when fall rolls around probably like 60 hours some weeks.
Full time vs Overtime
In the U.S., a standard work week is 40 hours, usually 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. If you work more than 40 hours, that’s overtime, and you get paid extra. For example, if you make $10 an hour, oertime is time and a half, so for every hour worked over 40, you’d make $15.
Arianna: How much do you earn each year?
Mitch: Not enough. Not enough. I’m going to say that.
Arianna: What’s the minimum you could earn if you just started out?
Mitch: Probably like 30k would be the minimum (like the lowest). I make a little more than that, but not great, you know.