News Update
June 6th, 2005
Lessons Learned:
The experiment (part 2) is 4 months in...
    What happened to the idealism that comes with being new to LA? I find that I need another place to live when my lease ends, and that I haven't even been making enough to pay my rent. Thank goodness for parents and savings. I have hit another emotional lull that looks something like:
     After everything that I have done, I should be paid for my time. I was going to be paid after I left college. Now everyone is telling me that I am young I have time, and that even when the project has money, they are unwilling to give any of it to me.
     In summary, being here has been a morally degrading experience.
     On the positive side, I am in LA and I am trying hard to make it. I am living many people's dreams. And... I am getting paid. (about 1/3 of last month's rent for a month's work.) I've heard that's better than some people do.
   If you are on this website and reading this, please consider paying me and people like me for their time. After 22 film/tv projects and working 4 states, one would think that people would stop looking at me as a child or as free labor.
     Why am I here? Because this is what I love to do.
    I still whole-heartly feel that I should not have to take a job outside of the film industry to make it in the film industry.
    

     Do you have advice for me or anyone else out there? If you do, email me and I will post it in the next news update.
Advice? Comments? Email me: [email protected]
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Written by: Megan Silverstein c.2005.
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