[bmarquez]

> experience of working on a film or television series that is underbid, understaffed, subject to unreasonable, inflexible deadlines, and endless directorial nitpicking: "pixel fucked"

This feels like working for a video game company. People overworked, underpaid, and doing it for the love of the creative arts and working on a name brand project. Similar things have happened at Electronic Arts.

[diob]

There's a lot in modern day life that seems to depend on an endless supply of naive young folk who don't yet realize they're being taken advantage of yet. They have that belief that their situation will be different.

It's one of those things you can't tell people either, they have to experience it unfortunately, so the cycle continues.

Not sure how you fix that beyond regulation / protection for those folks.

[ancientworldnow]

In the film industry everyone knows they're being taken advantage of, it's very explicitly discussed at the lowest ranks of production. It's just that it's the only entrance to the field if you aren't wealthy or heavily connected. You have to suffer until you build your network and credits enough to pull yourself up. There's little to no delusion, just embracing the suck.

[arp242]

Harlan Ellison's old "pay the writer" rant applies to many industries. He was right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLr9HG2ASs

[nradov]

I don't know much about VFX but that's certainly true in much of the scuba diving industry. They find young people who love to dive and want to make it a career, and sucker them into paying for training to become dive masters and instructors. Then those people get stuck working long hours for miniscule wages, always under constant pressure to cut corners on safety while trying to sell more equipment and training courses to customers. There are good dive shops and instructors who don't play that game but they are a minority.

In general be cautious about getting into any industry where people are there more for love than for money. That tends to create exploitive situations.

[nunez]

see also: investment banking, Big Law, Medicine (with bigger paychecks)

[danbmil99]

Luckily, startup culture in Silicon Valley has none of these problems..

[brailsafe]

Sounds like working on a software project of literally any kind, minus one's ego necessarily driving the burnout truck (I know that's probably about 50/50)

[edvinbesic]

Feels like working in advertising as well, granted it’s been a decade for me but I imagine the “creative” ego trip is still as alive as ever.