Steve Kroft Reveals He “Hated” His Time at ’60 Minutes’

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Steve Kroft may have had an acclaimed 30-season career at 60 Minutes before he retired in 2019, but if he had the chance to do it again, he “probably wouldn’t.”

Kroft joined Bill O’Reilly on the latter’s We’ll Do It Live! podcast, where he reflected on his decades at the iconic newsmagazine, a job that he confessed he “hated.”

60 Minutes was really appealing, and I thought, I wasn’t really sure I was ever going to get there. I didn’t really seriously think about it. When I did, there’s so many things that, first of all, the job is just 24 hours a day,” Kroft said of the grind at the prestigious program. “I mean, you may get a couple hours of bad sleep. Beepers going off, getting on jets, going here and there, the whole thing, then coming back and spending, you know, three or four days

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