A question I'm asked on a fairly regular basis is "How do I become an editor in the TV business?", and in many cases people don't like the answer I give them, as they think that because they bought a computer with an "editing" program on it and edited some home movies, that they are qualified to jump right in and start editing hour long episodic shows.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.  I thought that for this article I would take a look at the things that I think everyone should...