Instinctively, I've often felt it might, but I wonder if that's how other people think.
Some context: I have worked in TV for a long time. I tried to become an editor, it was basically my dream to be a film or TV editor. This career didn't really work out. I had one or two credits to my name, but I couldn't convince my local industry to take me seriously and I never made that short list of people here who are regularly called to do this and no one really thinks of me as an editor. I ended up pigeonholed in to a technical role which I've spent most of my career since doing in order to make a living. It has been very depressing and disheartening to watch the dream wither.
Recently there was a bit of a seachange for me. I was unexpectedly plucked from my rut and put in to a colour grading role. I knew a bit about grading and had always liked it but was definitely not at that point someone I personally would have picked because of the lack of any credits in the role, and the lack of expert level proficiency normally required to do that for Television where speed, efficiency and accuracy are very important. As it happened, I loved it and I was able to rise to the occasion just fine and it's led to other credits since. I think I might finally have the career path that I actually like and feel some self-respect having.
However, the thing is I never truly gave up on being an editor, I just didn't really succeed as I'd like to have done and have begun following this colourist path basically because it just opened up in front of me. I recently completed colour for a series and it's been commissioned for a second series. I did well at that company and both myself and my work were well received. While there I vaguely raised the subject that I also edit and would love to do that for them if they needed it. I know for the second series they're likely to call me in for colour once more, and I know that they are doubling the number of episodes this time which would mean they will need more editors than last time around so while they'll definitely call in the old crew, maybe there's a chance they might be happy for me to do that as well as the colour. The thing is, if they don't themselves think of this and ask me about it, I wonder if mentioning it myself explicitly might backfire on me. I worry that if they turn out not to be interested in having me edit, the very act of mentioning it that second time, might lower their estimation of me as a colourist. I'm worried it might give off some air of arrogance, or possibly desperation, and maybe it'll look like I didn't really want to be a colourist or I'm not really interested in it which might sour them on hiring me for that role too.
Is this a valid concern? Is it poor form to try and snag additional roles when a company knows you for another? Would it make me look like a jack of all trades and master of none?
Dream flight is just so freeing and joyful and affirming. Sometimes it's flight like how I think most would dream it, free of limitations, just a magical power that simply defies natural laws but for some reason with me, most of the time when I dream it, it's a little more 'grounded', there are rules. Somehow though I don't mind this, it somehow makes it even more intuitive, it feels kind of realer and this actually is part of what makes my flightlessness in waking life all that more disappointing and hard to have to accept. Dream flight for me is a kind of gliding experience that is innately possible in the physics of the dream world, anyone theoretically could do it also if they knew how, but of course because it's my dream, I'll be the only person to have worked it out. It's a bit like hang gliding, but it doesn't need any equipment unlike real life, just a kind of intense visualising and imagining of hang gliding, concentration is key or the whole thing risks no longer working like Wile-E-Coyote levitating above a cliff right up until he looks down. I usually need speed and run up, and jumping from a height greatly increases the distance and duration of the flight. From the moment I'm airborne, I gradually lose altitude until I can find something to jump off, so I'm always taking off with a calculation in mind for where the next solid object is for me jump off to continue the flight. In dreams, I use flight for leisure sometimes, but for some reason it seems it's most often my way of evading and outsmarting bad antagonists. If I'm being chased, I'll run on foot until there's even a slight incline or crest for me to get some height and that's when I deploy my flight skills that of course no one else in the dream has been able to master. It gives me this immense sense of satisfaction when aggressors are left frustrated and baffled at my unexpected ability to bend physics to my will. Sometimes it's not even running from people per-se so much as just leaving bad situations, like dreaming of being stuck in high school again and having to do an exam but then just leaving the exam room and taking flight instead. No matter if the dream till that point was stressful, neutral or positive, those first few metres of flight after my confident run-up strides are always ebullient and fill me with pride and affirmation like I'm taking control and casting off weights. Really wish I could actually fly, always leaves me so bummed out when I wake up and there's a lag between realising I'm awake and figuring out that the intense good mood I'm experiencing is because I can fly except... no I can't.