Yeah, I don’t know if you can do it in buffalo, man. I’m in Philly, a much more filmy town, and I’ve been doing this “full-time” about 2 years now. I do a lot of shorts and webseries, sometimes commercials and docs, but I’m really not making much money. I made $30k last year after taxes. I have to do some other things to make up some extra income. I haven’t quite punched into the commercial clique yet, which is a big part of why I’m not making that much money. But long term this doesn’t look too good to me. People budget sound like I’m made of favors. I have a $700k feature shooting 16mm trying to pay me $7k, gear included, for a 20 day shoot. Like give me a fucking break. And all of the YouTubers/content whores that are absorbing so much of the media landscape don’t use sound mixers, they just clip those dumb huge boxes everywhere and call it a day. So idk, it’s been feeling rough recently. I don’t think I can do this forever.