TL;DR: To turn my passion project into my day job, I would have to report to a person who used to bully me (other’s labels). Should I do this or keep toiling away off the side of my desk? Exceed your weekend reading quota with this context (code words for anonymity). It’s split into an origin story and a recent upheaval status. Origin story: When I had an idea for a marvel franchise. I talked to Warner Brothers about their DC franchise. I told WB that I envision the marvel franchise streaming movies, releasing books, selling action figures, branding with clothes, etc. at that point, WB was only releasing comics, had syndicated shows, and old movies that they’d refresh every 5 years. To start this franchise, I suggested marvel grow under WB, being filmed on WB lots and sharing production artists, actors, etc. Instead, they connected me to other indie production companies, who never had any money to fund my franchise, but shared a lot of guidance. They continued releasing a movie every 5 years with lots of interest. A year later, I started releasing the iron man movies. Warner Bros. called me monthly, saying I was why they needed Tylenol. Their actors and production artists wondered why these comic book movies weren’t released by them and why everybody and their mother knows about these iron man movies. While they’ve owned the Batman franchise forever and always sell out their small theater releases, my viewer numbers are much larger. I’ve partnered with streaming companies who don’t have ticket and theatre size limits. Over the last year, things calmed down as I grow my volunteers and reduce contact with WB. As our volunteers grow, we are slowly releasing other marvel movies to meet people’s interests and requests. We still haven’t gotten formal funding and can’t expand the franchise to toys and clothing. The monthly Tylenol complaints stopped. Perhaps because Marvel and DC are still in a lot of the same circles, but don’t engage much. I have tried to be civil, usually refer folks to WB’s DC for next-level produced materials. Recent upheaval: However, the last few weeks got stressful again regarding a random Comic-Con I set up (despite WB seeing no need to create a Comic-Con for folks to nerd out and trade advice). It’s ran for two years on its own with minimal maintenance from me. WB used to list it as a community resource on their website, but late last year advertised it all over their website. They set up a help booth at the conference too. A few weeks ago, I updated a help app that we originally released over a year ago for the Comic-Con. I tweaked some beta tools and posted a reminder that anybody can use the tools and all. WB repeatedly told me they don’t understand the point of this app, that it’s putting too much strain on their RAM in their androids, and they want me to shut down the app. IMHO, they don’t need to use the app because they know more than it, but others can use the app if they want or they can go to WB’s help desk. Why not let it live for those who want to use the app? They want it shut down until android manufacturers start using a next gen chip that addresses all of their issues with the app. The app was designed because of android current chip’s requirements. I have no idea if android even knows a chip is needed. They’re seeking more producers to fund their next series of DC movies and based on fan demands, they’re going to get into toys and clothing. I asked if we could revisit how DC and marvel could explore a collaboration again. Perhaps share actors and production artists. I just don’t know how we differ or complement each other, and I wanted to explore this with them since we haven’t talked for a year. Or perhaps get officially owned by WB so it’s my day job. My concerns: I feel they are only opening the convos of buying for a few reasons. 1. Our brand is more well known and our customer numbers would double theirs 2. They want to use our streaming partnerships 3. They want to micromanage me and shut down my app for Comic-Con To add to the temptation of selling out, I just moved to a new manager. We’re designing space colonies (still using code words 😅). My manager lets me spend 20% of my time on marvel because they recognize how many benefit from the culture and arts of super heroes. My manager is always transparent to me and has taken a huge gamble on somebody who has no knowledge about space colonies, but I’ve renovated college and business campuses. They let me learn at my own pace. Their team is talented and egoless. Plus, I imagined that one day, I would captain a ship and build a space colony that would be kind, eco friendly, and have an art and science renaissance. Although, I am tired. I’ve produced these movies for 2+ years. All the Indies keep telling me no. A few other entertainment conglomerates turned me down because they only want to focus in their country and don’t want to go global. I’m already global. Edit: Should I let WB buy Marvel and work for somebody who will shut down some of my stuff, continue only creating more marvel movies while designing space colonies, or let them buy Marvel with my lieutenants continuing to drive marvel creation while I offer board member or consultant oversight and I continue designing space colonies? TC: 170k YOE: ~5 + unrelated career 9 #burnout #mentalhealth #depression #careeradvice
We really do hire and develop the best don’t we
And the best sarcasm
You should be a writer.
Thank you. With all the “wtf 💩 did I read” votes, I’d be penniless. 🤷🏿♀️
I am not reading this essay about comic books bro
Next time, which metaphor should I use? I probably started with the millennium falcon, but then I couldn’t find the equivalent of that for the dark side. Plus, I was concerned about coloring your perspective by so heavily showing dark (republic) vs light (resistance) sides. In their own story, they’re the resistance too.
Bro go out and touch grass , it's not worth the time doing this man
I enjoy good writing so I read the whole thing but I'm still trying to figure out how much of this is a metaphor..
It’s all metaphor minus the Tylenol and personalities.
I’ll have whatever’s OPs on
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You’re right. That would help a lot. But no time between learning how to design 🚀 and 🤖 while delivering marvel movies.