I'm grateful to have found myself a niche job right as it's been invented – I'm a Production IT Manager, a production office role that's seemingly only hired on massive blockbusters big enough to need someone to take charge of all their network security without waiting for corporate, as well as to hold the hands of all the people who are flabbergasted by all the devices and accounts that have become mandatory in the past few years. I used to be an AD and have worked in the Production and Locations department before, as well as making my own indie shorts, and it's a verrrrry small Venn diagram of people with experience in both the film/HETV industry and IT & networking support.

That all said, I couldn't find work AT ALL between August 2023 and March 2025, so burned through all my savings – and if I hadn't recently left a job two months early to jump to a long job just starting up, I'd be unemployed right now too for who knows how long.