Talk about landing on your feet. Less than one year after quitting a lucrative Wall Street job, Kristin Hock Davie '90 has parlayed an internship at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta into a full-time freelance position as production assistant at ABC Sports. "The whole world tells you, `Don't quit your job without knowing what you'll do next,'" Davie said. "I've never had one regret." Her career shift began in September 1995 when she enrolled in a sports and event marketing program at NYU and almost simultaneously secured an internship with NBC's Olympic coverage unit. In April 1996 NBC hired her as part of the broadcast team that traveled to Atlanta. She set up a computerized archive system and helped produce short personal profiles of athletes that were aired throughout the Games. Davie "missed the [Olympic Park] bombing by 30 minutes," she said. "I was in my hotel room on the phone when I heard about the bombing. I had walked through the park just a few minutes earlier." Davie capitalized on her contacts from the Olympics to position herself for the job at ABC. "I talked to every single person I could find; I was a nightmare," she said. "I asked everybody I met, `What do you do? What does your husband do? Your brother? Mind if I call him?' It paid off, though." Her ABC job involves setting up interviews, researching footage and organizing shoots for sports features. "I'm very happy to be here. I'm not even worrying about where this job will take me next, or where I'll end up. I'm just enjoying each day," she said. An administrative science major at Colby, Davie played tennis and squash and says she always has been active in sports. Her new job involves her in emerging sports stories and gives her the opportunity to focus on athletes with interesting personal backgrounds. And although she had no broadcast or communications industry training prior to her internship, she says Colby gave her the fundamentals she needed to switch careers. "All of the stuff in economics and the other classes I took prepared me in a general way for what I'm doing now," she said. Shortly after she arrived, Davie met two other Colby alumni at ABC Sports, Curt Gowdy Jr. '75 and Margaret Schafer '88. "That was fun, to find out there were other Colby people here," she said. The decision to leave her Wall Street career, difficult though it was, has been vindicated by her newfound peace of mind, Davie says. "I just remember thinking, `What do I like to do and how can I fill my days doing that?' I'm so happy I made the change."