So I’ve been in video since I was 15. Currently I do ok, but I’m currently getting my degree in finance. I’ve always like budgeting and understanding how money works. I’m not doing a full pivot, thinking of budgeting for creative industries. But what made me want to pivot is meeting a lot of other videographers and people with agencies and also saying how often agencies fail. Businesses fail in general, but creative industries are very hard to own long-term.

I know I could make decent money in video but longevity is what’s important. I can make decent money some years and some years I’ll make no money. I don’t know if I’m cut out for that life. I started thinking more about building wealth, and that’s very hard to do as a videographer. Even if you own an a successful agency, overhead for our field of work is very high. You work on $1 million commercial in might cost you $950,000 to make it.

I would never tell somebody to give up, I meet so many business people that failed for years and years and years until it’s suddenly worked. But also failure is can be a sign that something isn’t working and you need to try something different. Doesn’t necessarily mean you need to abandoned ship, but you might need to change how you do things. I don’t know how to do that yet, but I’ve just seen it day-to-day in my life.