The career I’m pursuing is to become a video editor working from my home or at an office, and the reason I want to be that, would be because of my experience with the software and time put into it. I loved piecing together clips and turning it into a video that makes people laughter or happy. The feeling of having people feel those emotions for something that I worked hard for is more of a reward itself.
The working conditions for being a video editor are really interesting. Video editors have irregular hours or weird deadlines to meet, and a video editor that doesn’t work at home would work in an office for about forty or more hours. They also work very precisely and need things to be done in a specific way that way it reduces the amount of difficult errors to correct. The thing that really catches my interest is that they often result to working with their coworkers and asking them questions instead of supervisors. Working from home would be a different thing, it would require me to rely on commissions or be a video editor for a Youtube celebrity. It would also require me to spend probably more time than a normal video editor depending on the requirements the commissioner is providing.
Video editors usually work in an office. I would prefer to work at home but I don’t know if that would be possible. Honestly speaking, if I become a video editor I won’t be upset about not working at home anyways.
For training required all I would need is a bachelors degree but if I wanted to get paid more and have further training, going for master’s doesn’t sound too bad for getting.
On average a video editor $45,512 yearly with a range of $30k ~ $76k. Depending on the training that is required, bonuses, profit sharing, and commissions would only add more.
There’s a lot of other relatable jobs such Audio Editor, News Editor, Media Editor, VFX Editor, and many more. They all sort of associate and require knowledge of editing software, However I prefer video editing just because it’s something I have more experience in.
It is possible to advance on this job and get a promotion such as, a video producer or creative director. After 10-20 years of training video editor salaries increase by approximately $11k.
A lot of people rely on video editors to do their work, depending on which field or what the commission is. If it were an animation it would be up to the video editors to put together all the clips into a perfect video/movie. In Texas, it’s basically the same except a lot lesser. This is because Texas has a terrible and not so popular cinematography area. However in other states such as a lot of the west coast, they have a pretty popular film industry for example Hollywood.
This occupation does require travel if you were to work in an office. Other than going from home to work, nothing really major such as travelling internationally. Moving studios or offices is a way for travel as well, however it’s not usually required.
Being a video editor means it does come with flexible work schedules, but that’s only if the deadline is met. As long as one is able to maintain their amount of hours per week and work efficiently, then having a flexible schedule is doable. Remember that working with your coworkers to produce a final product is important therefor if someone is lacking on their job it slows the progress down for every other coworker as well.
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