On Apr 20, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Jeff C Goodhall wrote: > Raymond most people work 60-70 hours a week at normal jobs. :) >
Nonsense. The people I know who work hardest are pulling 9, 10 hour days, maybe going in for a half-day Saturday, that sort of thing. That clocks out to 45-54 hours a week. In 1966 our standard work-week at 20th Century Fox was 60 hours, five 12 hour days. Anything over that and we were getting double overtime, which was not permitted unless someone green-lighted a special allocation of hours for a project in trouble. Now, I was a grunt, so to speak, an apprentice film editor, and when I walked on the lot the admin building was already running at full throttle, with producers (like my dad) having been there an hour or two already, and some of those guys were still working after I left. If you're a film maker, you LIVE with that project from pre-production until final edit and post-production are finished. That's why film makers often take a year or more off after finishing a project. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
