A filmmaker's job in the industry

Sometimes I think it's such a shame, all those brilliant people trying so hard to get a job that is so below their level. Many students, for example, are searching jobs in the post production industry. They think they want to be editors, or compositors, or whatever. So they send 100 cvs, to all post production studios, and get zero response. Then two years after they find out a friend of the son of their mother's friend is an assistant editor in a studio. They wait a few months and a position becomes available: a runner! They get the dreamy job. A year after, they still deliver tapes to angry assistants, coffee to angry customers or drugs to angry editors.

Some of them will maybe proceed and become assistant editors, and even editors, someday. But so many others are just wasting their time, energy and qualities on those stupid jobs, that anyway were created just for the sake of "classes" within the industry. And what's even more bothering is, most of those roles pay shit, or sometimes even not pay at all.

I used to work for a post production company that specialized in commercials. The atmosphere was shit, but I didn't have much contact with the people since my job was backing-up those systems (Flame machines), and that was usually early morning, before anybody arrived. Some of the Flame people got no money for half a year, and also then they got very little. They of course worked just as anybody else.

I feel bad asking for people to work on my film without paying them anything, but I don't have any budget yet. But when companies that make millions still don't pay their employees - nobody should take part in this. We all worth piece of this cake we help baking.