"Lingering LSD Trip..."

This is not my post. I copied this directly from a post on the NY Craigslist board. Funny stuff, but I only think filmmakers will find it amusing in a painful sort of way:

I was an aspiring filmmaker, got some cash to blow and got some real good equipment. But after a year and a few months of slaving over craigslist for bullshit jobs and non paying jobs in hopes of "transportation, food and LOADS of experience, WOW" To all you filmmakers out there, QUIT I currently work in retail now and frankly, Im loving it. Nice stable job. money comes in every week, you cant ask for more with a crappy film degree like yourselves. Forget it people, film isnt what it used to be... if you find yourself slaving over craigslist every 10 min looking for that ONE job that millions of others New Yorkers and NJers have found, you need to fucking wake up and realize film was once a golden gate of creativity and dream and now is a dirty unthankful piece of shit now. Its over, Im sorrry... film went out with Rotary phones and the food pyramid. its a lingering LSD trip that lives on with people paying nothing that take advantage of. Quit I did, and I am finally happy Good luck

There's some kernels of hardcore truth buried in this rant. As true in Arkansas as it is New York. Not enough to make me quit, however. :) And from another Craigslist post:

taking a huge-ass risk, succumbing to the power of fugly and getting your heart stomped on

If that doesn't describe filmmaking, I don't know what does.