Why Work in Entertainment
Jonathan Daves
Issue date: 10/29/01 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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With the job markets for MBAs in the traditional industries suffering like President Bush’s liver back in his Yale days I would like to make an argument for my fellow classmates taking jobs in entertainment. It is true that an average MBA coming out of business school working in entertainment can only make about enough money to afford to buy various Vaudeville disguises to hide from creditors. So why would prestigious Stanford MBAs lower themselves to working in an industry where a large portion of the successful executives barely made in out of high school?
First, you get work around the “beautiful people.” About 70 percent of the workers employed in the industry are smoking. Next time you are in Los Angeles or New York walk into any production company and look around. That middle-aged producer did not hire that former swimsuit model for her dictation skills (yes, the ladies in power are also notorious for hiring chiseled- abed assistants). Using your newly acquired skills in interpersonal dynamics, organizational behavior, negotiations and strategy your lust target will have no chance to resist your advances. Furthermore, if those tactics do not work just do want everyone else does, lie and tell him or her that last week you signed to be the producer onto the next Tom Cruise movie.
Second, in the current job market the one industry that keeps on chugging along is entertainment. It does not matter whether people are unemployed or employed they will still watch television, go to the movies, listen to music. There are always glamorous jobs as assistants, grips, script readers, verbal punching bags that MBAs are over qualified to do. If you can deal with Grove cold calls than you can take geek-made-it-good superiors who take joy in humiliating their subordinates.
Third, you can impress your friends and family. Sure you are so poor you are forced to eat out of In and Out dumpsters but at least you get to say that you peed in a urinal next to P. Diddy.
First, you get work around the “beautiful people.” About 70 percent of the workers employed in the industry are smoking. Next time you are in Los Angeles or New York walk into any production company and look around. That middle-aged producer did not hire that former swimsuit model for her dictation skills (yes, the ladies in power are also notorious for hiring chiseled- abed assistants). Using your newly acquired skills in interpersonal dynamics, organizational behavior, negotiations and strategy your lust target will have no chance to resist your advances. Furthermore, if those tactics do not work just do want everyone else does, lie and tell him or her that last week you signed to be the producer onto the next Tom Cruise movie.
Second, in the current job market the one industry that keeps on chugging along is entertainment. It does not matter whether people are unemployed or employed they will still watch television, go to the movies, listen to music. There are always glamorous jobs as assistants, grips, script readers, verbal punching bags that MBAs are over qualified to do. If you can deal with Grove cold calls than you can take geek-made-it-good superiors who take joy in humiliating their subordinates.
Third, you can impress your friends and family. Sure you are so poor you are forced to eat out of In and Out dumpsters but at least you get to say that you peed in a urinal next to P. Diddy.