Tuesday, March 23, 2010

No ATL Job

Sadly, after spending nearly six and a half hours in the car Friday, my quest to Atlanta to apply for the PA position was in vain. The AD said she'd keep me in mind as a day player, but I think that was just consolation talk. She said they gave the positions to people with more experience. Go figure.

I'm hearing this a lot these days and reading it on a lot of job descriptions: "Must have 2-5 years experience." Yet, how is it we get experience? Could it possibly because someone hires us? Furthermore, what experience does someone really need to be a decent production assistant? It's the same shit, different show. Every time.

I'm feeling really invalidated and worthless these days. It seemed not so long ago I felt that I was good at all this and that things were really starting to look up. Guess it just goes to show how unbelievably unpredictable this business is.


3 comments:

  1. I'm getting the same thing applying for jobs as well. I'm being told I don't have enough work experience, but at the same time, the reason I have no work experience is cause no one has hired me and given me a shot. It's a real pain, but if I were you I'd just say screw it and make my own film. After all, a good digital camera is so cheap to get ahold of nowadays, make some friends who are actors, get a low budget script that's easy to shoot in like one or two locations and go for it.

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  2. Shortfilm called "Twenty-Somethings Need Not Apply"

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