5 Signs you're about to go from an emerging filmmaker to becoming a PROFESSIONAL: You realize: 1. It's been a year and you're still working for $100-350/day on passion projects, indie films, and your own projects. 2. You're still not making enough money to make film what you do full-time. 3. All your connections are people who want to break into film themselves too. 4. The film work you're doing (indie and projects) doesn't qualify for joining the union (DGA, WGA, Producer's Guild, or Local 600 or other locals). You are not accumulating qualifying paycheck stubs and your name on a callsheet doing a craft) 5. You are not on the list of producers, production supervisors, and coordinators in your area. Only other aspiring people have you in their phones. Not your fault, film schools, workshops, film challenges, and festivals keep you spinning in the same place. Always ASPIRING, but never getting on professional sets so you can become a PROFESSIONAL. When might be a good time to re-set your horizons? Now!