Thanks for the motivational speech.
If you actually read what I wrote the first time, I no longer do that job. Nor am I now, or ever have been, a teaboy. My reply to you the first time was meant in a jokey manner. Clearly you misunderstood.

I was a technical runner. My main job was the day to day running of the facility, which involved making sure edit suites were online, delivering playouts of sequences all over the city and digitising footage to be used in edits. When we weren't busy doing that, people would ask us to sort out food and drink for clients, as we were the only ones that could really leave the building to go and buy such things.

Working as a runner is the first job anyone will get in the industry I work in. Almost every single TV show and film you have watched has been made by someone who was, at one point, a runner. It has been the way into my industry for the last 60 years or so. My sticking to the job has nothing to do with growing a backbone, and everything to do with the fact that leaving after a week would pretty much ensure I never got a job anywhere else. After nine months, I decided that was a reasonable period of time for me to quit and not have it reflect badly on me. As I stated elsewhere, the day I was told I was being let go, was the day I was going to tell my manager I wasn't coming back in.

There is a certain amount of having to "pay your dues" involved before anyone will give you a better job. If you can put up with the shit jobs for a while, eventually you will get bumped up the ladder. It just so happened that the company I worked for had no intention of bumping anyone up the ladder, but were happy to basically lie to us based on our understanding of the way the rest of the industry works. I know many people who also started as runners, and now work as associate producers or line managers.

Therefore, it is with the utmost respect that I inform you that you are talking out of your bottom.
( PMGT -Bacon., Sun 15 Apr 2012, 10:32, Reply)