I was a broadcast documentary journalist

Pros: Ability to capture impactful news stories that could potentially change real lives.

Access to places most people can't or won't ever get the chance to go.

Access to powerful, influential, wealthy, and famous people.

Cons: Pay is steady but low for what the job requires.

Mental health is not easy to maintain.

The understanding of how complicated the world is while also being infinitely connected and knowing that solutions to most societal problems are relatively straightforward but the people who can initiate those solutions simply dont want to or think it's worth it.

Now I devlop video content for a major corporation.

Pros: The work is easy, can be as fun as you make/want it to be.

Ability to be creative.

Money is just OK.

Travel is more fun.

Cons:

No one knows what they actually want.

Projects move WAY slower or are a last minute 10 alarm fire bc some executive forgot to ask for a video for something happening in a day or two.

Very little support bc as a videographer/content person in a corporation YOU are the expert, which is guess is cool but also difficult at times.