What made you quit or give up in your industry?

I used to work in film & television in cameras and lighting and I hated just about everything about it. Every movie and TV show now has a political agenda that makes most media unwatchable anymore, there's no real creativity and expression on big filming sets. Even in film school they tried to convince me to follow the industry's opinions and goals and not my own creative expression.

The constant sexual jokes and harassment were horrible, every man that works in film is basically a loser with an immature 12 year old sense of humor. Lifting heavy things all day (you work typically 14 hour days most days of the week) was not worth what it did to my mental and physical health either.

If you are like me and enjoy wearing makeup, nail polish, jewelry, styling your hair, wearing feminine clothes...yeah you can't do any of that if you work in film unless you're an actress. It's cargo shorts and heavy steel toe boots. Actresses normally work around 6-10 hours per day, but if you're camera and lighting then you have to stay at least 2 hours before and after the actors are on set.

To add, many film sets can be in the middle of nowhere so you are sharing a porta potty with a bunch of immature men who might knock it over. It's not fun when you're filming outside where it's hot and you're there for 12 hours and you're on your period.

Also the pay is very low

Now I just stick to photograpy as a hobby and work a corporate job, it's much better.