Re: Working Over the weekend... NOW: Back to Mac Pro speculation

[Bill Davis] "Perhaps it never works that way on your side of the pond... but if I had a dollar for every production pro I've ever talked to who lost a position to someone "better connected" by birth or marriage to a working pro in the industry, I'd be able to... well, to buy a lot more nice toys."

Bill, I live on your side of the Pond and while there is plenty of nepotism in the film industry three is very little in the editing side of it. Unlike production, editing is very meritocratic. What family relationships often give you is opportunity and exposure, sometimes at a very young age, which is an advantage in building a career, but that said, if you can't cut you won't last and if you are talented and determined you will.

My being neither connected nor talented, I got by on pure luck, which to paraphrase the great sage, is better than either.

I will add that your constant references to the "high priests" of editing does make you sound rather envious and petty. Personally, I like to think of us as the "whiners."

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin' attached to nothin'
"Deciding the spine is the process of editing" F. Bieberkopf