I am a projectionist/desk guy at a local theater called "The Tower." They are a theater/video store that deals in obscure, foreign, independant, classic, and shitty movies. They are also one of the few video stores that is not plagued by mormons and one of the few where you can get uncensored PG rated movies and up, since CleanFlicks signed a deal with BlockBuster/Hollywood to censor all movies PG rated or higher to earn a "G." During the day I just rent vids to people, and we're allowed to watch anything from the store as long as it doesn't interrupt our job and obviously if the customer wants to rent the video we are watching we have to give it to them. We do a lot of midnight showings and I do them every other day. The exception being the upcoming Rocky Horror Picture Show festival, where me and my wife are going on stage to play Riff-raff and Magenta.
It can be fun, if you like movies. I often get into discussion with customers and like to chat about movies and make recommendations. Sitting behind the projector is fun and obviously you get to see free movies, and they show a lot of fun B-movies and Indie movies. I remember when they played "The Giant Claw," I was laughing because I remembered how fuckin' funny that giant Buzzard was and the people in the back row kept looking back at the projector because I kept laughing, waiting for that thing to pop up, and then when it finally came on the whole theater burst into uproarious lughter, but some people in the balcony still heard me.
I need a college education, but that's one of the things that the money I earn is going towards. I really want to be a cinematographer/director because of my love for the art of film making. I'm also interested in maybe being a pharmaceutical engineer, as I love chemistry and studying compounds. I also write in my spare time, and am working on a novel. If things go as planned, my main career will be the movie making stuff, but I'm exploring several options.
