Funny, this made me start thinking about a particular bit of verbiage from Becky.
In all of her I'VE GOT AN AMAZING HOLLYWOOD JOB spiels, she speaks in a very particular phrase (well, two phrases, actually) about her job.
She says she works at a major film studio. Or at Paramount. Once in a while, she'll say she works in a major film studio backlot.
Not once, not ever, has she said she works for Paramount, or for a film studio. This, combined with the "unpaid leave" and the high-deductible insurance plan, makes me certain she's talking around the fact that her "film studio job" is a contract assignment, where she's not employed by the studio but some faceless middleman instead. They provide barebones benefits.
People can sometimes make that kind of experience pay off in a way that gives them a career in film. Work diligently and impress the people around you, and you'll certainly do better in an interview for working at Paramount than some guy off the street. But you need skills, ambition, and luck to pull that off, because for the average employee, that's going to be the deadest dead-end job you ever took.
