How My Set PA Helps Crew Protect Their Personal Life

Because your relationships, your home, and your wellbeing shouldn’t suffer just because you work in film & TV.

There’s a running joke in the industry that crew don’t have personal lives — they have “dark days,” “turnarounds,” and the occasional Sunday where they remember what their kitchen looks like.

But behind the humour is a very real truth:Production takes up so much emotional, mental, and physical energy that crew often have nothing left to give the people and responsibilities waiting outside set.

And it’s not because you don’t care.It’s because you’re human — and production isn’t built around human capacity.

Here’s how My Set PA steps in to protect the parts of your life that matter most.

1. Your relationships stop being collateral damage

When you’re on a 12–14 hour day, your partner, children, friends, and family usually get the scraps of your energy — if any.

Birthdays get missed. Anniversaries sneak up on you. Dinners get cancelled because the day ran over. You haven’t replied to your best friend in a week.

The guilt builds, even though it’s not your fault.

How My Set PA protects this part of your life:

• We remember birthdays, anniversaries, and special dates for you

• We buy gifts, organise cards, and arrange deliveries

• We help plan date nights, family days, and time-off logistics

• We keep communication from falling through the cracks

• We manage the practicalities so you can show up emotionally, not just logistically

You stay connected to the people who matter — even when your job tries to pull you away.

2. Your home life stops feeling like another job

Between shoots, your house often becomes a dumping ground: laundry, unopened post, bags you haven’t unpacked, bills you haven’t touched, repairs you’ve delayed.

And when you’re in production?Forget it. The house runs itself or it doesn’t run at all.

How My Set PA protects your home life:

• We schedule repairs, maintenance, deliveries

• We arrange cleaners, movers, painters, handymen

• We organise paperwork, bills, renewals, insurance

• We sort appointments you haven’t had time to deal with

• We coordinate quotes, admin, and communication

Suddenly your home stops being a source of stress.It becomes a place that actually supports your lifestyle — not drains it.

3. Your wellbeing no longer comes last

Production trains you to put everything ahead of yourself. Crew are masters at powering through exhaustion, ignoring stress, and delaying anything that isn’t urgent.

But your physical and mental health are urgent — and the industry rarely gives space for either.

How My Set PA protects your wellbeing:

• We book GP, dentist, physio, therapy, and health appointments

• We move them quickly when the schedule changes

• We remind you to take care of things you’ve postponed for months

• We help you plan actual downtime that isn’t stolen by admin

• We create breathing room so you’re not always “catching up”

When someone else is holding your life admin, your brain finally gets permission to rest.

4. Your career benefits too (even if you don’t realise it yet)

Crew often think personal support is a luxury.But here’s the insider truth:Your personal life is directly tied to your professional performance.

When you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and stretched thin, it’s harder to:

• stay patient

• stay sharp

• stay enthusiastic

• take opportunities

• think long-term about your career

And because freelancers are their business, anything that stabilises your life stabilises your work.

How My Set PA protects your career:

• We update your CV and professional profiles

• We help with job applications before deadlines hit

• We manage availability checks

• We keep communication flowing between jobs

• We handle tasks that keep your career “warm” even when you’re too busy

A healthy life off set means a stronger, more resilient career on set.

5. You finally get something crew rarely feel: space

Not hours — headspace.The space to breathe, think, rest, plan, or simply exist without a to-do list following you everywhere.

When My Set PA handles the background noise of life, you get:

• space for relationships

• space for rest

• space for hobbies

• space for self-care

• space for an identity outside the job

Because here’s the truth the industry rarely says out loud:Production doesn’t own you.You’re allowed a life.You just need support built for the realities of the job.

We protect your life so you can live it — not just work around it.

Film & TV will always be demanding. The hours won’t magically shrink. The schedules won’t suddenly stabilise.

But what can change is the amount of pressure you carry on your own.

With My Set PA, your personal life stops being the thing you apologise for neglecting — and becomes something you can actually maintain, nurture, and enjoy.

You run the set. We protect everything that happens beyond it.

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