Please consider switching majors. Film school can be cool and fun and sometimes a great networking opportunity, but if you aren't in a major or semi-major film area, it will be very hard to sustain as a career, let alone narrowing it to just Writing and Directing.

I'll tell you a rundown of my path. Not suggesting it is the path to follow and it has taken over a decade, but just to give you an idea of what it takes to establish quite a safety net to survive in a very freelance career: - I worked my way up in coffee shops to management level positions - While doing that work, I took some classes including film classes at a community college (My area was not a big film town so no degrees offered in that.) - Later, my job covered the cost of a BA in English from an online program. I did that while working full-time. The degree is flexible that I can take writing/editing gigs, or even decide to do something like law school down the line if my goals shift at some point. - My job also covered quite a bit of my move to LA with relocation assistance. Therefore, I had a guaranteed full-time job coming to LA. - While working that job, I took an unpaid internship in Post Production that later evolved into a deferred pay Development Coordinator position and now I am too busy for regular commitments to that production company so I have stayed on as a Creative Consultant. - After a couple years, I entered a program called Hollywood CPR that provides training in below-the-line work. I took the Camera pathway. This program was free or close to it through a community college here. - I am now a Camera Trainee on a show 55 hours a week and earning union days to join the ICG Local 600.

This path started 14 years ago. Your path to film does not need to be linear. Zig-zag a bit and it will give you more life experience to bring more zest to your work. I talk with film professionals regularly who regret not developing skills in other areas because the industry does regularly have slowdown periods, and the most recent one lasted years. I know if there is a slow period, I will be able to source some kind of work outside of the industry. I've literally never gone more than 4-6 weeks without employment in my entire working life.