Your post is over a year old! but I wanted to respond.
If you are producing original work and exploring new ideas then be prepared for a lot of rejection and aggravation. By definition the audience and market-place does not exist for what you are creating. Also, there are a lot of people who are doing fine out of keeping things the way they are, for their own benefit. Vested interests in other words.

The establishment is wary of originality because it is not what it knows and controls… It’s not “established”. It either doesn’t understand what you are about, or doesn’t want something new to threaten careers, status and reliable cash cows. This is normal. I’ve often thought that the “creative” industries are ruined by the people that work in them.

I’m just trying to give you an idea of what you are up against.

If you are good across a range of disciplines, that helps. The most successful people I have seen have either “zig-zagged” up the ladder rather than climbed straight up… or have been a Mozart at something that not everyone wants to do (or can) but is nonetheless needed. …or who have towed the line for years, established contacts and an impressive CV, and then gone their own way.
Some in the industry consider flexibility bonus, some favour specialisation. Either direction is your choice. Frankly I don’t consider that the industry gives me enough of anything to dictate *what* I do. That’s *my* choice!

Prepare to be: ignored, bought out and sat on, criticised, ostracised, discriminated against, ripped off and plagiarised. Not good huh?
Now, if creativity is just part of who you are then you may *have* to follow it or be forever restless and wondering ‘what if?’ … which is arguably a lot worse than trying and having it “not work out”. Something else may “work out” instead.

My opinion is that it all hinges on how you regard these supposed ‘superiors’ that you think you *need* to validate your work, career, art or even *life*. When I started out, I put these people on pedestals and would chase the crumbs of work that they tantalised me with. I had to go through the ‘mill’ a little and learn the hard way that I was *wrong*. My creativity -whatever it’s ‘value’- can exist outside of the opinions of others that I discovered were just as flawed, biased, self-centered, narcissistic, spiteful, devious, back-stabbing, fake and destructively neurotic… as the worst in any aspect of our society.

So don’t be surprised, or depressed if you have bad experiences with them. Don’t even consider the same ‘way out’ that Francessca did. Trust me after getting the inside view… the industry and the people in it are really, *really* not worth it. Your health, life and creativity are way too important.
Looking back with experience I find it frightening that I ever believed different. It’s almost laughable!

So: (for instance) if you want to be a film-maker: start making films … don’t wait around for someone behind a desk to ‘validate’ you with a badge and a pat on the head! You can do your own thing and anything else is a bonus. Even if you want to approach the industry, the fact that you have your own thing going on makes you look more serious, professional and indeed desirable. Of course you may get asked: If you have your own thing, why do you want to work for us? Be prepared.

The pill to swalllow is that : you *may* never be a “big shot” by industry standards. I am not one and I may never be one. So what? What’s more important the art or the prestige? You may have to support yourself by other means at least in part? So what? It’s a good character builder, gets you thinking about other things, gets you real money *now* and (depending on the job) could give you useful contacts.

Does any of this help? I’m just trying to convey the things that I wished I had known when in your position. These are my opinions and conclusions based upon the reality that I have seen and experienced, not just fortune-cookie philosophy. Get the (qualified) views of others too and then choose.
You can re-evaluate, modify, learn and grow as you progress. In fact you probably will.
That’s life.
B.