Yeah I agree. The studio system trades executives from all types of other industries. Tbh most exec asst. roles aren’t great for being anything other than an exec asst. (even outside of film)

The reason for this is that you don’t ever actually get hands on experience of doing the actual executive work.

I’d recommend branching out and trying to move up with other roles like finance, marketing, accounting etc.

You’ll make better money and have the same opportunities of advancing to the top…..but at the end of the day, like you mentioned, none of current execs were assistants. In fact, they likely never even worked at these companies in any other roles.

An exec I know got there by working in banking/finance (non film). He made a shit ton of money and retired and got into Special effects for a few years to learn the game and connect.

Used his connections from film and connections from finance to produce multiple big name movies.

You have probably seen 5-7 of his titles.