When I lived in L.A., I used to say if I got high enough in the entertainment industry chain (which I never did), I’d pitch it is a sitcom. Just the cast alone- there’s him, there’s cheery goth office manager, there’s the alcoholic in charge of another part of the business (it was also a recording studio and audio duplication house), there’s my musician friend from high school working under the alcoholic who would loudly sing Frank Zappa at random times, and there’s weirdo me running the studio or doing assistant work when my boss was running it, working on radio commercials, and helping out others when the studio wasn’t booked.
There were a lot of fun things about working there as well as a lot of the terrible stuff. In terms of a job right out of high school, it was definitely worth keeping for 5 years. Why did I have a job like that right out of high school? I had already been part of a radio drama troupe he had founded by 3 years at that point and had worked my way up to president of the troupe and so at the time, I was sort of a radio drama wunderkind. At this point, I haven’t actually worked on any in many years, but I still enjoy listening to it. Mostly BBC stuff. It also started me off on a career of over a decade doing VO work- not due to him though. He had a classic 70s radio announcer voice and basically only used my voice, which is much more contemporary, when he needed a second voice or needed my ability to do characters and impersonations. Essentially, he ground me down until one day I said, “wait a second, I’m more talented than you are!” And I was, as my career showed. But I had to leave there first.
I will say there was one thing working there which I was able to get away with that I would never have been able to get away with anywhere else- namely, my boss was being such a colossal dick one day that I screamed, “fuck you!” and stormed out and went home and that was not my last day on the job or far from it.