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And we all universally agree we donвЂ™t have enough time to do our jobs properly without sacrificing our relationships, our health, or our sanity in the process (not to mention those who have literally given their livesВ for the sake of entertainment). We all have the same 24 hours a day and 7 days per week. But regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or otherwise, there is one fundamental core issue driving the vast majority of the problems in the entertainment industry that needs to be addressed now: The hours we work.

There are countless important issues unique to peopleвЂ™s circumstances that clearly need to be addressed.

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( HereвЂ™s the full list of the personal stories people have shared with me anonymously). Since sharing my own list of what I believed wasnвЂ™t working, IвЂ™ve received hundreds of messages and included many of your personal stories about what hasnвЂ™t been working in your lives. We all seem to be in universal agreement the way we did things pre-pandemic in the entertainment industry wasnвЂ™t working.

From marketing to features to advertising to television to documentary, above-the-line and below-the-line, union and non-union alike вЂ“ the idea of nobody wanting to go back to вЂ™NormalвЂ™ clearly struck a nerve.ДЄs I said in my interview with Cathy Repola, National Executive Director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (Local #700): I honestly never thought this message would ever reach beyond my tiny little (windowless) corner of the post-production world.ДЇrom 2nd assistant directors in Mexico City to makeup artists in North Carolina to corporate video editors in Germany to accountants in Japan, not to mention countless directors, producers, and even actors ( Skinny Pete, yo!), IвЂ™ve heard from people on all six continents. When I published my article Dear Hollywood: We DonвЂ™t Want to вЂGo Back to Normal.вЂ™ Normal WasnвЂ™t WorkingВ I was absolutely floored by the response as I watched it spread like wildfire across social media in all sectors of the entertainment industry.

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AuthorвЂ™s Note: The following is just one in a series of my impassioned letters to the entertainment industry titled вЂњDear HollywoodвЂќ that IвЂ™ve written over the last several years that examines and questions how we fundamentally live and work in this business.