So much of it ties into the wealth at local universities, too. Combined with the days of no-pay internships (not that the pay now is livable). A few of us even used to play the game "what do the interns drive?" Then answers always ranged from mercedes to maseratis.
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My parents were high school teachers. They gave me everything they had for film school, but it was nothing in comparison to what was around me. People like to use this kind of thing to justify "bootstraps" bullshit, but the only reason I survived those early days?
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It wasn't my "hard work" and "gumption," those are givens. Horribly, the answer was a bit of poker and the fact my great aunt left me a few grand that allowed me to survive the early brutal job searches. A few grand was all it took. That's it. And it was pure luck.
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Realizing how many people had rich parents was not a great moment for me
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Yuup. Who can afford to spend years working for free? Not anyone middle-class and definitely not most POC.
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Yep! When I worked at an agency, I had a waitress job on the weekends so I could afford to be able to have the agency job.
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This is worse in news media because it results in almost every story being shaped by decidedly non-working class people. Skews the news.
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This is the no1 reason PA’s need a union. Only film job that pays where you don’t get tarred as “non-creative.” Even then it pays like shit and it’s more a path to AD and middle management than “creative”
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Thank you for saying this! The unpaid internship I just did in LA is the second-worst financial decision of my life. First-worst was getting a grad degree in the first place. I can never afford to move to LA now.
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