How Dave Richard Turned a Love of Fantasy Football into a Lucrative Career

Salary Talk

You’re probably in a fantasy football league. If your league is really competitive, you’ve probably spent a lot of time researching the best players for your team by buying magazines, studying depth charts, analyzing position rankings, or soliciting advice from experts on Twitter. If all this is true, you’ve probably heard of Dave Richard. As the Senior Fantasy Football Writer for CBSSports.com, Dave has a job most sports fans and stat-obsessed fantasy football geeks envy---he gets paid to watch professional football and then discuss it. In this week’s special Dream Jobs edition of "Salary Talk," Aaron teams up with Salary.com Product Manager Patrick Siska to interview Dave and find out how someone ends up writing about fantasy football for a living. Find out how he got the job and hear tips on how you can do the same.