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I have so many friends in the industry and it blows my mind that movies ever get made. The inner workings of the movie business with its 'extreme personalities'

I have so many friends in the industry and it blows my mind that movies ever get made. The inner workings of the movie business with its 'extreme personalities', on-set politics and its ridiculous accounting processes would likely drive any computer programmer to madness. That said, the camera operators at the top of their game get paid really well. Its a total racket too, if you're good and in whatever guild controls the camera operators you can command ridiculous amounts of money.

CognitiveLens 16y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but a guy that one of my friends is dating is an ESPN golf cameraman, and apparently goes to like 8-10 tournaments a year all over the world, aims a camera at that tiny little ball for a few days at each tournament, and gets paid 6 figures (in GBP)... I have no idea how to get a gig like that but it always sounded like a sweet deal.