Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas’s The informal Media Economy is a very relevant article for me, and all will be graduate students work in the media industry. This week reading made me deeply think my career in the future. Lobato and Thomas point out how ‘a lot of money can be made in media work’ at the beginning of the article. Then, they describe informal media work has a ‘real downside’ in the industry: ‘insecurity, overwork, and low pay’. This fact especially shows on my internship as I did last year worked in a video factory shooting a Chinese Tv series. During the shooting, one shot may take more than several times, over and over again, which caused I can not off work on time, and sometimes I worked more than 12 hours per day start morning until midnight, also, the most frustrated problem for me is there is no pay for the internship. As my work team is all Chinese, sometimes, my manager will give me a chance take wedding shooting work. That’s an another work experience. Overall, I spend lots energy and money on that internship. Even that, I still learned lots of stuff during that internship, and I realize the future of my career will be more and more tougher if I want to enter the film industry. Once I asked one of my film camera operators friend why he chose this tough, exhausted career, his answer encourages me: if you love this area, nothing can prevent you.