SilentKnight

Over the years I've had a mish-mash of various jobs - all of which taught me different skill sets that (when combined) were invaluable when I finally started my own company.

Through the mid/late 80s and early 90s I worked in the print/graphics industry in Toronto at half a dozen different printing/press shops. I learned about pre-press paste-up, typesetting, design, layout, cameras & darkrooms, film stripping...the works. At one point I ran the entire camera dept. for Canada's second-largest advertising agency during my college co-op work-term. It was fascinating work at the time - going through the gradual transition from analog to digital in the industry...using new state-of-the-art computer technology to do things that previously had been done analog/manual.

I shifted gears to media/video production and landed a short stint as a camera operator/video editor with Director's Film Co. in Toronto - doing TV commercial casting calls. That led me to taking a job as a video editor for Canada's largest adult video retail distributor - and hence the adult industry introduction.

But it wasn't until I started my own production company that I finally got to utilize all the combined skills and experience under one umbrella. In a roundabout way I'd been putting all the pieces together over the years - without knowing the final outcome and goal.

What a long, strange trip its been.

So I'm curious what skills everyone's acquired from previous jobs that became invaluable to you in the porn industry.