I guess that's not really fair, but it kind of feels like that right about now. So I work for my Dad, who makes TV which is cool, whenever someone asks 'what do your parents do?' and you come out with that it always starts a conversation. Though nowadays whenever I say I work for him I always get the same reaction, the old eye-roll-raised-eye-brow-'oh yeah?' one because, apparently, it isn't a real job.
This is really beginning to annoy me, is helping make television special FX far more simplistic and monotonous than working in Matalan?
Though this isn't why people are skeptical. The judge it because they assume as I'm employed by my Father I just sit at home playing PS3 and occasionally move a lens or something. Firstly, that shows these people have obviously never met my Dad and secondly, it's like, not true? I work long 9 hour days Monday to Friday and I really have to earn the money I get. I also like to think it's fairly skilled work, not everyone can do what I do, like pull-focuses or setting up 125s, because I have the experience. Being able to use a till won't help you understand the intricacies of a Red ONE, it's a different set of skills.
I suppose what I mean is I don't like people judging everything everyone does all the time. I mean so many people go into family business' and no-one challenges them, so why do people think me going into mine is so different? I tried to get a job in a shop like most people my age do and they all rejected my applications. My Dad was the only person who actually offered me a job so why wouldn't I take it?
Plus rolling out of bed at 8 to get to the bottom of my garden for 9 is pretty neat too.
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