Facebook Twitter Instagram It’s been a busy old… …12 months at Share My Telly Job.. 2018 started off with a bang – organising the flexible working event which we hosted in May.  I’m delighted to report that we’ve (finally!) cut together a ‘best bits’ from the evening so we can…

Two events this past weekend have been about women: the vigils that were held across the country to protest the murder of Sarah Everard, and Mother’s Day. One a howl of pain that STILL we cannot be safe from male violence, the other a benign marking of the sanctity of…

Bectu’s recent #unseenonscreen (https://unseenonscreen.wixsite.com/unseenonscreen) anti-bullying campaign has thrown up a long list of accounts of unacceptable behaviour. Sexual harassment, overwork, micro-managing, poor contracts, lack of guidance, disregard for junior staff… And yet, sadly, what struck us here at SMTJ is how nothing in the submissions felt like a surprise. All…

Written by Dr Rowan Aust, Academic Consultant and Co-Director at SMTJ Today is Equal Pay Day. It is the day as the Fawcett Society calculates [https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/news/the-fawcett-society-announces-date-of-equal-pay-day-2020], that women stop earning relative to men. Which means it’s the day when women start working for free compared to men doing the same job,…

I’ve just finished my first job since the COVID pandemic began – and its been the first time I’ve worked full-time in 5 years, give or take the odd weeks here and there. The current global pandemic is the only reason this opportunity to work full-time, at home, came my…

I very vividly remember being told during the early years of my television career that “there are two types of women over 35 in this industry, the ‘telly widows’ and the ones who leave”. I was a 22 year-old researcher at the time and whilst the idea of being a…

There has been so much bad press surrounding TV in recent weeks, about the working culture and the treatment of people who make it. The Mental Health crisis was clearly shown through the findings in the Film and TV Charity’s recent industry survey which produced horrifying results regarding the state…

Long-time job-sharing Senior Casting Producers Karen Browne and Amy Willetts tell SMTJ about what makes their job-sharing partnership a success.    How did the job-share come about? Karen: We first started job sharing on Snow Sex and Suspicious Parents.  I had worked with Amy a long time ago and had got…

Last night was brilliant! The room was full, the atmosphere was bright and the panel inspired our audience from the start. A huge thank you to Line, Emma, Jonathan, Maria and Anna. We set off on this campaign to really try and increase the confidence to employers to give flexible…

In January this year, I’d decided to leave telly. As we all do at times I just didn’t think I had enough gas in my tank to make it work especially with an extra child thrown in the mix. I honestly didn’t know where to start with trying to get…

A realistic account of the ‘Perfect Family Job’ I regretted using that term within an hour of being at that perfect family job! I’ve just finished an 8 week stint on an Edit Producing role which initially gave me a huge boost knowing that there were jobs that fit with…

..the mist is lifting now we’re 10 weeks in to being a family in ownership of 2 brilliant children. It’s been a (very) steep learning curve but I’m finally feeling beginning to feel like I’m getting the hang of doing most tasks with one hand and working out the psychological…

Stephanie Earwicker is a part-time Production Manager at the highly successful independent production company, Spun Gold TV. Inspired by Share My Telly Job she decided to put forward a pair of job sharers to her Series Producer. A simple decision was made and the part-time parents are now settling in…

Sooo, the experiment isn’t going too well! I can’t always blame it on the inefficiencies of the industry to re-employ working mothers but the situation is a bit like swimming in mud! It’s worth pointing out that it is my choice not to pursue full time work for reasons previously explained (see…

A BUMPY RIDE We were just 10 days in to the ‘experiment’ and things took a bit of a tumble. I lost my job sharer! (Super) Sara was actually in the midst of Edit Producing work chats before we met and one of those came to fruition and she had…

Success, 1 week in – hurrah! After a rummage around my the website for like-minded Edit Producers and Gallery Directors, plus a post on the Facebook groups,  I struck gold! Yesterday I met with a brilliant lady called Sara who is in a very similar position to me and shares…

It’s been a while since I’ve sat down and worked on the website – mainly because I haven’t been able to find any free time over the past 8 weeks. There are a few reasons for this. I’ve been at work (job sharing – of course) – working a variety of day/late/night shifts. When…

Simon Smith talks to four guests about juggling two highly demanding commitments – being a mum and working in television. You can read the article on the BBC site.

Lou Patel has worked in TV for several years and is a recent first time mother. As she juggled with the conflicting needs of her child and attempts to earn a living she came up with the idea of ‘Share My Telly Job’, which is a kind of dating service…