I know where you are coming from, I do some work in TV and the union thing, well, 6 weeks with no work at the moment but when you do the 20 days in a row, you get payed enought to get you thought those 6 -12 (hope not!) week non work parts, still I found after 6 years as a camera operator, that the best way to get into writing was to leave TV and go into radio, Produced and wrote ads, after 6 months the same people who would never think about get me to do jack shit out side of camrea work all of a sudden had writing work for me! (all this and my praticaly writing skills suck the biggest one!) Amazes me how blind people can be, I on the other hand can see prefectly fine, it's just my smell thats the problem! viva la-warren