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Regarding the biz - maybe I'm still too naive, but I think that there are at least SOME people in this town who've made it by being nice instead of stepping on adam's apples. I'm moving foward with the understanding that I simply don't want to be a big CEO or an A-list director if it means I have to sacrifice my own ideals. And there are certainly companies that are better to its employees than others, from big studios to small firms.
That said, I am also observing that even the tangential participants in the industry (read: marketing) have to give a whole lot of time and energy to it that would be difficult to sustain in the very-long-term. I've spoken occasionally with EH about it, and she's said something very wise, that perhaps the industry isn't as ageist as much as very fast-paced, and people who grow older and wish to spend time doing other things may, in fact, prefer not to stay at the office until midnight two nights in a row. (Hell, *I* prefer not to. I'm so tired today!) Or go see plays every night looking for talent. Or keep up the evening barfly act looking for connections. There really are more important things than that, and I suspect that as they get older, more people realize this.
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