Career Goals

[Richard Herd]

regarding student loans: The student loan debt in the US has reached crisis. Students need to calculate the cash repayment obligation. Many loans are amortized negatively and unpaid interest is capitalized. That’s infinite debt repayment. That is a massive opportunity cost. It is very important to pay them off as soon as possible (sacrificing other purchasing) because student loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy.

[Linda Naks]

This thread is the best I’ve trailed in all of 2014.
Seems we ALL have something important to say.

Keep it coming, folks– this is the best show I’ve seen in town for a very, very long time.

[Andrew Rendell]

Reading this thread I feel so boring, no degree, no multiple careers, no wide range of different skills. I started cutting around 1989 and still make my living from it. The big Z is right that when you get good at something it does get boring in some ways (NLEs are indeed seriously boring, but you can do some interesting things with them) and I moved from sports to music to factual TV to find an area where solving creative challenges keeps it interesting for me. I’ve also done plenty of boring cutting jobs for the pay check.

If I’ve any advice it’s this: don’t let what you do to make a living take over you, you need to have a life outside work. I paint pictures, make experimental music and go to the theatre as often as I can afford to, but it doesn’t matter what things you do as long as you have something that means when you’re having a bad time at work (and we all do from time to time) you don’t interpret it as an attack on yourself personally, which you can do if you identify yourself too strongly with what you do for a living. And that wider experience of life will make you a better filmmaker as well. So what are you going to do next weekend, sit in front of a computer learning some intricacies of a software package or go to a ball game? Go watch the he game, man 😉

[Linda Naks]

Thanks so very much, Andrew– your post inspired me to dig out an old painting of mine this very morning, which I had left abandoned earlier this year when work had hit the fan.

[David Uebergang]

This was all I could think of reading your post; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY

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