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Clodfobble · 10-19-2005, 02:24 PM

I always had respect for the older students in my college classes--except for the ones in my Radio-TV-Film classes. It is just a simple fact that you cannot "break into" the film business when you are 35-40 years old. You have to slave on other people's projects, for free, for years, and only after 10-15 of those years do you have a shot at getting anywhere real (and "real" is "making a living," not being famous.) Even if they somehow could afford to work for free like the young idealists, no one's going to use a 45-year-old with a family when they could get a 22-year-old who is ready and willing to live on caffeine and work 18 hour days.

But any other major, yeah, I thought it was cool of them to decide to go back and change their lives like that.

10-19-2005, 02:24 PM	#6
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I always had respect for the older students in my college classes--except for the ones in my Radio-TV-Film classes. It is just a simple fact that you cannot "break into" the film business when you are 35-40 years old. You have to slave on other people's projects, for free, for years, and only after 10-15 of those years do you have a shot at getting anywhere real (and "real" is "making a living," not being famous.) Even if they somehow could afford to work for free like the young idealists, no one's going to use a 45-year-old with a family when they could get a 22-year-old who is ready and willing to live on caffeine and work 18 hour days. But any other major, yeah, I thought it was cool of them to decide to go back and change their lives like that.