I'm not baffled by the streaming industry... But i'm baffled that a lot of kids see it as some sort of career path. I remember a conversation with this centrist early zoomer, i was arguing that the IT innovation industry was not offering as many jobs as the manufacturing industries used to offer and his answer was "There are many jobs for streamers and youtubers." With this smug tone like he was educating the boomer... And what do you even answer to that?
In this guys mind, does he see himself paying rent and bills from streaming donations? Does he see a generation of streamers living in little houses like General motor workers? is there an angle i'm missing?
Kids today wanting to break into streaming is like kids in the past wanting to become Hollywood stars, or Broadway or whatever else. I would say to him what a director once said to me when I was starting out in that industry - there are 50k jobs, and 500k people auditioning, which in practical terms means you're going to be working eighty hour weeks for well below minimum wage unless you win the fucking lottery and become a mega star.
I got out of professional theatre after about a year, god damn it sucked.
Yeah, the local/semi-pro scene is way chiller, just as talented, and you dont have to sing La Boheme over and over again for 20 years instead of the stuff you actually like.
I'm not baffled by the streaming industry... But i'm baffled that a lot of kids see it as some sort of career path. I remember a conversation with this centrist early zoomer, i was arguing that the IT innovation industry was not offering as many jobs as the manufacturing industries used to offer and his answer was "There are many jobs for streamers and youtubers." With this smug tone like he was educating the boomer... And what do you even answer to that?
In this guys mind, does he see himself paying rent and bills from streaming donations? Does he see a generation of streamers living in little houses like General motor workers? is there an angle i'm missing?
Kids today wanting to break into streaming is like kids in the past wanting to become Hollywood stars, or Broadway or whatever else. I would say to him what a director once said to me when I was starting out in that industry - there are 50k jobs, and 500k people auditioning, which in practical terms means you're going to be working eighty hour weeks for well below minimum wage unless you win the fucking lottery and become a mega star.
I got out of professional theatre after about a year, god damn it sucked.
Found Lenny Turteltaub's Chapo account.
Yeah, the local/semi-pro scene is way chiller, just as talented, and you dont have to sing La Boheme over and over again for 20 years instead of the stuff you actually like.