Here's how you can choose between interning at a media production company or a media agency.

You need to find out early on where you want to be. Like so many people in college, they start out with one goal then after the first semester or the first year they change to something else. It helps to know what you want to do starting out. I know that some start out thinking this is where they want to be and once they get into it decide it isn't what they thought it would be so they change. I get it, it happens. Give it thought. Think of the aspects, pros and cons of your decisions. Make the best choices you feel is right for you, the direction you would like to head in, the end result, the end goal.

They used to be different companies, but if you’re deciding now. You’re just committing to a legacy mindset. The world’s number one creatives and in turn the companies they start are a perfect blend of both. In the old days they’d sit in one room and come up with a creative and a strategy, then look for production companies who will then pitch ideas against the brief. By the time you pick someone it’s 2 months in, the idea has pivoted and ultimately this content is losing in today’s world. Personal views aside on the way social media is or the new world. It is the way it is. Work with it and not against it. Intern somewhere where you learn both, you’ll ultimately be the winner

I have found that networking has helped me land my next acting job. Every time I attend a meet and greet or a Actors mingle I always get a job out of it. Either in a film or my next commercial shoot. You never know who your meeting and where it can lead so always be on your best and show respect.

I worked as a PA on a feature film, which is a great entry level job and that introduced me to so many people in different levels of the industry. Same goes for an internship. It will learn you the knowledge and introduce you to so many people that the doors of opportunity swing wide open. I have seen so many people in the Media Production and Film industry start as an intern and move up quickly.

Your age has never been an advantage in history until now. Young people in the 90s/00s and early 10s were the bottom of the food chain. Now they are the entire food chain. They are both the best consumer, the controllers of social media and some of the best creatives. It took 10 years to build a career, now you can do it in 3 with the right steps.