Advice to the (Hollywood) Laid Off

Desperate? Furious? Counsel from the Trenches

Dear Susie:

I recently got laid off from the film studio I was working at— a casualty of the writers’ and actors’ strike. I was working on script acquisition, development, everything that leads to a producer’s credit. It was my second year there. I’m 24 now.

The job was a mixed bag to begin with, and now I don’t know what to do. It grates on me, to have …