hellbilly

So because al my film work is freelance I do a variety of odd and strange jobs during those slack times between film jobs. It wasn't always this way. For a while I could do freelance work, make enough money to do my own stuff and then pick up another film job when I needed one. But as more film work goes overseas, and to Canada, this becomes harder to do. In fact the last good run of work was in the fall of '02 when I did some stuff for the history channel around the DC area. It was right in the middle of the sniper shennaigans so it made things kind of interesting. But times have changed. While I have my own project going we're probably not going to have the budget to pay me and my producer to do the preproduction work. Which means that I need to come up a job to pay the bills and save enough to live through the fall while we set the film up. It doesn't look like there's gonna be much film work this summer but as life would have it luck dropped a most strange and unexpected job in my lap. Here it is:
Tow truck driver.
I know. I think it's strange too. I mean people do it. It's not that strange. It's not as strange as when I worked as a roughneck on the Wyoming oilfields, or hauled scrap out of a Superfund site. But it's seems like has the possibilites to be weird. I'll be working out of New Haven pulling wrecks off I 95 for the State Police. That right there offers up whole realms of wierdness.
I guess I'll have to think on this. I wanted to travel this summer if I could land a good film job for the spring. And it's not like I'm in this life to make money. But I would pull in $700 a week under the table, and a summer of that would mean I could take the whole fall off and do nothing but get my film ready to shoot this winter.
Oh well it'll all sort itself out. It always does.