I figured it maybe smart to ask this question here since I would be talking to already employed people. I am currently in a very very new Digital Arts and Sciences MA program that was completely misrepresented to me by the director of the program and faculty I met with prior to entering. I know I want to make movies. I would be happy directing, producing, screenwriting, cameraman, editing whatevs..that's what I wanna do for sure. However, I've already spent $20,000 on a program I am 85% sure I am going to leave because I am learning nothing, I would just have a fancy piece of paper and no knowledge to support it.
I have three main fears about going to film school:
1. I am digging a $60,000 (SCAD) financial hole that will take my entire life to get out of.
2. I won't get a job after, or I must go to NY or LA to get one. (I can do that, but I'd rather not.)
3. My chosen career path is not at all conducive to having a family and I would constantly uprooting them more than a military family or very poor and unable to send my kids to college.
ANY thoughts or guidance on the subject would be IMMENSELY appreciated!!! (Especially since I do not feel I can trust my prof's since I now know they are desperate to keep people in their program.)
I have three main fears about going to film school:
1. I am digging a $60,000 (SCAD) financial hole that will take my entire life to get out of.
2. I won't get a job after, or I must go to NY or LA to get one. (I can do that, but I'd rather not.)
3. My chosen career path is not at all conducive to having a family and I would constantly uprooting them more than a military family or very poor and unable to send my kids to college.
ANY thoughts or guidance on the subject would be IMMENSELY appreciated!!! (Especially since I do not feel I can trust my prof's since I now know they are desperate to keep people in their program.)
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