I’m about to finish up my fourth week in LA. Time has flown by. I’ve been extremely busy with meetings. And last week, I started an internship with a production company. I won’t say which one but the producer I work for was one of the producers on a certain movie about a certain band back in the 60’s – one of my favorite movies ever. He also produced a certain movie about a certain serial killer who likes to eat liver with wine and beans.

The way I got the internship is really awesome. My friend and I were going to see a free screening of The Soloist (LA is so cool) and we bumped into a guy who is the Director of Development for this production company. He’s a believer and a heck of a nice guy. He mentioned something about interns. I asked if he needed any more interns and he said yes – one of his current interns was leaving the following week. Such a God thing.

Now when you intern in the movie biz, you don’t get paid. The hours are long. The work is basic stuff – phones, reading scripts, making copies, etc… But this experience has been amazing – and I’ve only worked there 3 days (2 days a week.)

I’ve decided that this is the industry for me. And I want to learn everything I can and do whatever I can do to climb the ladder. I’ve bucked against this for too long. I guess it was a pride thing – I didn’t want to go to LA and do the entry level grunt work. But doing this stuff is the only way to learn how the business runs. I don’t think I’m cut out to live in the development world forever but I’m glad to have this time. My internship will last for 8 weeks – who knows where God will take me then.

Peter Pan was right – To live IS an awfully big adventure.