A few years ago, someone I enjoyed working with stopped hiring me, and I felt kind of crappy about it. It wasn’t the first time this had happened, mind you. Contrary to what you might think from reading this blog, I am not the best or most popular boom operator in the world. I can be cranky and I fuck up from time to time. Even if I were perfect, it’s in the nature of freelance work that people who work together for many hours on end for long periods of time do tend to get sick of each other and break up eventually. But even less so than when it’s a personal relationship, people generally don’t feel like they need to let you know this is what’s happening – probably because the film world is a world of guys. So, as guys do, they just stop calling, and it’s just as shitty as when a guy you’re dating stops calling, except on top of feeling rejected and worthless, you also now have no income.
Closure Shmosure
Closure Shmosure
Closure Shmosure
A few years ago, someone I enjoyed working with stopped hiring me, and I felt kind of crappy about it. It wasn’t the first time this had happened, mind you. Contrary to what you might think from reading this blog, I am not the best or most popular boom operator in the world. I can be cranky and I fuck up from time to time. Even if I were perfect, it’s in the nature of freelance work that people who work together for many hours on end for long periods of time do tend to get sick of each other and break up eventually. But even less so than when it’s a personal relationship, people generally don’t feel like they need to let you know this is what’s happening – probably because the film world is a world of guys. So, as guys do, they just stop calling, and it’s just as shitty as when a guy you’re dating stops calling, except on top of feeling rejected and worthless, you also now have no income.