I am glad this helped! As always do what feels right. If you have the opportunity I suggest reaching out to Post houses in your area (or agencies but I'd avoid the corporate agency environment as a career and aim for a Post House - but for shadowing and interning it's fine) and ask if they have any opportunities to come in and shadow some editors or assistant editors. This will give you an idea of the professional environment and workflow within a company.

I got my start while in college. I was getting ready to take my MCAT for medical school and just got burnt out on it all. I had an offer for an art scholarship before graduating high school and turned it down but started to regret it. Arts are my passion, so I decided to get back into the creative field.

I switched majors and began playing catch up - I bought a camera and set a goal to film one video every week and post it on youtube to learn the craft. I had an identical twin brother who did the same thing and together we made a successful youtube channel that has 6 million+ views now. We quit making videos after graduating and moved into the professional field. I cut two documentaries both of which won an Emmy and I won personally --

note on the emmy

I cut this my Senior year of college and it finally got submitted and won in 2014 (two years later). *I gave every weekend to that project for months and dedicated most of my free time to it. I missed parties and nights out with the guys. *but it was worth it. I learned more in that time by simply cutting everyday in Avid than I did in all of my classes. *plus the documentary won an Emmy. *point being - this was a project offered by out Professor and my classmates so it as a free/pro-bono job for the *Teacher that would detract from partying on the weekends. These are the student who most likely wound up being Assistant for a decade... or still are.

After I graduated I started taking whatever freelance jobs that I could a