Keep Your Eye on Your Long Term Goal
Marty Lang contacted me on Twitter, presumably in refernce to the joblist, or my own jobs page: @TheAnonymousPA there really is no way to get an inside track on a writer’s assistant position, is there? I scour sites all over the place, and the closest I ever came to finding one was the showrunners assistant […]
Amazon Rentals
Jamie writes in: I just got a job as a PA (really an unpaid intern) on an independent movie. They put with the production designer as part of the ‘art department’. (really just the two of us). She told me we would be using Amazon Rentals for most of the set decorations. I can’t seem […]
Letters of Recommendation
I saw this harrowing tale about an internship gone wrong recently. I recommend reading it, if you want to know how badly these things can go. But there was one complaint the poster had that I think is completely unwarranted: What really pissed me off is she wouldn’t write me a letter of recommendation. She […]
One Simple Tool Every PA Should Have
As a PA, you have to remember a lot of things: people’s names, directions to set, the producer’s favorite brand of liquor. It can be a bit overwhleming, especially if you don’t have an eidetic memory. So what do you do? There’s an Easy Solution Get a notebook. Not a notebook computer. Not The Notebook. […]