Today this sentence popped into my head: "What I am going to do with the rest of my life". And then shortly after "Oh crap, REALLY What am I going to do?!?"
I mean there are a lot of options, but what if you weren't one of those kids who really wanted to be a pilot, or a doctor, or a scientist? What if you happened to graduate from college with a meaningless degree? What if you never actually came up with ONE thing that you wanted to do.
Ideal jobs:
Professional world traveler
Restaurant Reviewer (because food is king)
Professional Gamer (video games and arcade games included)
Stand-in
I feel like I'm sitting at the edge of this huge edge of decision and the next few years are going to make an impact on where I land. To be honest I'm worried I'm too much all-over-the-board to do one thing, which makes me think I need to make pros and cons of my current situation.
Things I love about film:
-the randomness of being able to jump from finding a house to film in, to building a puppet bear, to editing crazy videos, to researching great music to use.
-Outlet to be creative and produce art
-Music videos in any format
-Working in a group dynamic with friends
Thing I Dislike about film:
-Competitive nature of the film community
-Constantly rushed jobs with intense deadlines
-Underpaid jobs where you have to sacrifice an aspect of the art or yourself
So I do love filmmaking, to be honest it's the chance to be an artist that I never thought I would have, and it's very fulfilling to look at something you helped make and see the product. But I'm not ready to get tied down to one thing like being an producer or an editor the rest of my life, because that sounds awful. I'm starting to think that this might be a generational problem because how else do you get the birth of a nation of bloggers? People who want to do work on their own schedule in their own space. I could go for that.
I mean there are a lot of options, but what if you weren't one of those kids who really wanted to be a pilot, or a doctor, or a scientist? What if you happened to graduate from college with a meaningless degree? What if you never actually came up with ONE thing that you wanted to do.
Ideal jobs:
Professional world traveler
Restaurant Reviewer (because food is king)
Professional book reader (reading a good fiction all day = bliss)
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Professional Gamer (video games and arcade games included)
Stand-in
I feel like I'm sitting at the edge of this huge edge of decision and the next few years are going to make an impact on where I land. To be honest I'm worried I'm too much all-over-the-board to do one thing, which makes me think I need to make pros and cons of my current situation.
Things I love about film:
-the randomness of being able to jump from finding a house to film in, to building a puppet bear, to editing crazy videos, to researching great music to use.
-Outlet to be creative and produce art
-Music videos in any format
-Working in a group dynamic with friends
Thing I Dislike about film:
-Competitive nature of the film community
-Constantly rushed jobs with intense deadlines
-Underpaid jobs where you have to sacrifice an aspect of the art or yourself
So I do love filmmaking, to be honest it's the chance to be an artist that I never thought I would have, and it's very fulfilling to look at something you helped make and see the product. But I'm not ready to get tied down to one thing like being an producer or an editor the rest of my life, because that sounds awful. I'm starting to think that this might be a generational problem because how else do you get the birth of a nation of bloggers? People who want to do work on their own schedule in their own space. I could go for that.
