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Brenda Yoo (Image: Sarah Keech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brenda Yoo\u2019s lifelong motto is, \u201cWhy not try it?\u201d And she\u2019s living that dictum now, working as a production accountant\u2014a career that she had no experience in when she started 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

Yoo \u201993 began in the field after leaving her family\u2019s photo developing business when the industry was beginning to shift from film to digital. She used her savings to move into an apartment on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side and started looking for work. A friend of a friend introduced her to someone who worked in the film industry. Soon, Yoo was interviewing for a job in his company\u2019s production accounting office, even though she had never done that type of work before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said, \u2018All you have to do is be meticulous,\u2019\u201d Yoo remembers. Her first job was processing an insurance claim for the popular TV series The Sopranos<\/em>. That gig kick-started a career doing accounting for TV shows and movies\u2014including Girls<\/em>, The Fate of the Furious<\/em>, and BlacKkKlansman<\/em>\u2014in locations ranging from Atlanta to Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Yoo works on three to four productions a year, helping crunch numbers on costs, which could range from an extra day of production to the lead stuntman breaking his leg. She says these productions function much like the circus: Once a location is booked, fully functioning offices pop up in the blink of an eye, equipped with tables, phones, copiers, and other equipment. After a show wraps, these offices disappear just as quickly, turning buildings back into empty shells.<\/p>\n

The itinerant lifestyle, and the need to constantly have to think on your feet, isn\u2019t for everyone, notes Yoo. But she says her undergraduate education at the Whiting School, where she majored in geography and environmental engineering<\/a>, helped instill flexibility, a good work ethic, and critical thinking skills that she uses every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccounting doesn\u2019t have a sexy connotation, but it\u2019s helped me travel and make new friends around the world,\u201d Yoo says. \u201cI can see myself doing this until I retire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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