I was told this week that the show I am on has to cut back. Starting with me. I only had two weeks left any way so I have already been looking for the next gig. The post Producer is also trying to help find me something else. He has a lot of great connections. I’m not to broken up about this. I have been working nights in New York. Having to commute from my small New Jersey town on the only express train in bound in the afternoon and riding the local train back in the morning, an hour and half to two hours each way. This is as long as some of my commutes in LA but I was only going 15 miles!The long hours and lack of sleep are starting to show.
This is a familiar situation. When I was first starting out in LA I was fortunate to land a PA job on the NBC Series “Profiler”(I knew someone, as the they say, more stories from that to come) from there I moved on to the show “Pretender” an NBC show produced by FOX. I was on the show for about 4 weeks when the production manager called me into his office and told me that show was “over staffed” with office PA’s and asked me if I’d like to work on set. Well I thought I’d be on set for “Pretender” when in fact I was to report to a new show called “Judging Amy” (even more stories to come about that). My first day, they told me that this was my “interview” and they would call me back as they needed me. I worked every day of every episode for the entire season.
My experience on “Judging Amy” was great but it took me farther away from my goal of working in postproduction. When season 2 was starting up, I met with the post supervisor to interview for the Post PA job but she had to hire someone else more local (He knew someone). The production had moved to the FOX studio lot, which was very far (in LA terms) from my apartment in North Hollywood. So that was that.
I’ve been through this before and I’ve started to build a new network of contacts here on the East cost so it’s emails and phone calls.
