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“I want to say to them very very few STEM graduates enjoy the success you have had. Could you teach your daughter how to be a TV producer?”

Perhaps, I’m reading you wrong- but isn’t that exactly their thinking? They understand the tenuousness (or luck or whatever) of their success and wish an “easier” path that’s less ‘winner take all’?

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Anyone who works in film/media industry will advise their kids against it. Or to at least learn a trade that is completely unrelated first, then do media arts if your heart is set on it. Even Denzel Washington got his kid to do other things.

Im 31 and working in the field I’ve just been enjoying the first few months of professional stability. In my career. Yes it’s great that I can finally do that, but like someone else said I wouldn’t recommend the first 10 years to anyone.

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