Stunt work is not a steady paycheck. You might work for three days, then wait six weeks for the next gig. That’s when you become a personal trainer, a yoga instructor, or—and this is true—a professional mattress tester. Yes, there is a man in Los Angeles who gets paid to lie on beds and “pretend to fall down stairs on them” for mattress commercials. He is my hero.
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Also, buy good health insurance. I cannot stress this enough. You will pull a hamstring while pretending to trip over a curb. You will catch a surprising amount of things on fire. And you will develop a very specific injury called “stunt neck,” which is just whiplash with a cooler name.
