The hardest project
A typical day in Vancouver BC will be from 9am to 5pm, --How weird is that? Every other studio that I worked on in other countries (USA, France, Israel, Mexico) have a way more busy schedule, usually you won't leave the studio until you finish your daily tasks.
How can Vancouver get away with that? This is called the "West Coast Culture" of Canada, people want to be outside the office rather than working all day, enjoying their families, hobbies, social life, etc.
---Yes there is; and its amazing all the things you can do outside the office, I promise.
The king of busy and long days in my experience has been Los Angeles California. A typical day will be from 9am to 9pm, a short day (that usually doesn't happen) is from 9am to 6pm. Its not surprising to see people working a 100 hours week; this is truly testing human capabilities that raises the following question, how long can you keep on working in this industry before you get burned out? or... When you see the IMDB profile from any of your heroes, you can't help but asking yourself how did he put up with so much work for all those years?
Indeed long hours and busy days are part of the whole film industry, and it doesn't seem it will change any time soon. Fortunately for Vancouverians that only happens during "crunch time" but still it is shocking to know that your work will be occupying ninety percent of you daily lives.
The hardest project we are constantly facing is to keep a balanced life, without work we would go crazy, too much work will have the same effect.
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