What Is Chad Koel's Journey?

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“Adulthood is a scary time in every person’s life, for the soul fact that you have to choose a career to become a working member of society.” These words, spoken by Chad Koel, are a true statement. Trying to find a career is hard, and it takes almost of all of your young adult life to decide what you’re going to do. Job offers will lead you in a certain direction, but then passion for another will pull you back the opposite way. Where does it end? Chad will tell you that going to do something you love to do for work is a fantastic option. If you are looking to follow a love of television into the career field, take a read of Chad Koel’s ascendance into life. Sometimes, you have a passion that you cannot follow because of physical or mental …show more content…
He started producing TV shows for the company, “In-Fisherman”. At In-Fisherman, Chad realized that editing and producing shows was a lot of fun. After a while, Chad started to take in more and more shows, so he began his own company called “Koel Communications”. Chad still works as the head producer and president of his business. “I’m working on a few shows now, some of which are Fresh Tracks with Randy Newman, and Lake Commandos,” Chad states. He mostly works on outdoors shows, but for a while did a few episodes of the hit History Channel show MonsterQuest and a show, which he co-created, called Dirt Knights. Chad loves what he does and does a great job at it. Chad Koel has taken control of his life, and shown himself and others to follow their passion when choosing a career. In this interview, my eyes were opened, and Chad Koel’s career, or should I say, my father’s career has pushed me towards a job in the same career field as him. Dad is one smart guy, and I’d be happy to follow in his footsteps. Like he says, “My whole thing was to always try to make a living out of something you really enjoy.” Whether or not I do what my dad does, I’m going to try to live by those

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