Job Opportunities for Former Screenwriters
Key takeaways
- You’ve come so far in your career, and have the résumé to prove it.
- The TV and moviemaking industries have become so anemic that we’ve been forced to look elsewhere for entertainment, and have collectively remembered I.P.
- Not because you need to, but because your parents need you to.
Photograph by praetorianphoto / Getty Save this story Save this story Save this story Save this story Now that Hollywood is dead, it’s time to pivot to marketing. Just kidding—A.I. took most of those jobs. Luckily, your unique skill set is the perfect match for the following professions:
You’ve come so far in your career, and have the résumé to prove it. Sure, it’s a little dusty, and now there’s a budding, young actor with your exact same name, which kind of muddles your IMDb presence—but still. You’ve worked on exciting projects! It’s time to put all that experience to good use. And by that I mean convincing twentysomethings to ask their parents for money to take your Zoom class on pilot writing.
The TV and moviemaking industries have become so anemic that we’ve been forced to look elsewhere for entertainment, and have collectively remembered I.P. Oops—I mean novels! Hooray. It’ll feel great to get back to your roots. You fell in love with novels to begin with, remember? You adored how fiction could transport you from your humdrum life into other worlds. Now it’s your turn—nay, your destiny—to create those worlds. Maybe you’ll come up with something about a guy named Paxton—that’s a pretty cool name—who slowly realizes that, while he’s been breaking stories in a TV writers’ room, the TV industry has been breaking him. Wow. Now get to the nearest coffee shop and pound out eighty thousand words so that a friend-of-a-friend literary agent can tell you to rewrite the whole thing with more gay hockey.