This is a question I have been faced with many times recently as the pressures of delivering time and time again under overly ambitious time scales and hugely under estimated budget constraints have begun to wear away at my usually steel like veneer.  And yet, despite almost 10 years working for the entertainment industry I find that I still wake up in the morning, wonder what’s going to hit me today and yet can’t think of any other industry I’d rather be working in.  In fact, I wonder if I’ll ever move to another industry at all!

Is it fun?  Absolutely not.  It’s tough.  Actually it’s really tough and the pressures faced seem impenetrable and the mountain tops seem insurmountable.  But that leads me to the next question of why do i do it.  Right now, I simply don’t know.  Some people think the answer is simple in that you feel close to the excitement of being near famous faces or because you can get free tickets to big events.  But in reality famous faces become very dull and free tickets to big events become so ordinary that suddenly a night at home just chilling in front of the tv seem rediculously inviting!  So what is it that pulls me in day after day?  Who knows.  Maybe the people, maybe the satisfaction of a job well done but neither of those explain why i continually feel a pull to this industry right now and maybe always will.

But this i do know, I learnt everything i know in various parts of this industry and I’m good at it.  I get it.  And i take pride in that.  So maybe I’m afriad I won’t succeed elsewhere?  Possibly.  But that doesn’t really fit in with my character in general.  I like being pushed outside of my ‘comfort zone’ so it seems that the question will continue being unanswered at least for now.

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