My first year in the Hwood

A little over a year ago I picked up and moved from NY to LA. To be honest, things weren't going well for me back in NY, I was on the waiting list to be a postal carrier. While a noble profession, it's just not for me. I wanted to start over with a clean slate and somehow got in my head the reason why I couldn't get a career off the ground was that I was meant to be a writer. That MUST be it! In my defense, I had been toying with idea for a good while taking classes and reading books. I had been taking annual trips to LA and made some LA contacts: a director of a network show, a former PA, a producer who I met once, a coexec producer and a close friend of a showrunner. Not great contacts but a start. I also had a plan. I'd go to LA and become a reader first.
I arrive in LA and take a class at UCLA in Story Coverage and Analysis. Unfortunately, I can't find work. I decide to go the unpaid internship route but most of them require that you are in school. Finally I land an internship as a story analyst for a shady production/management company. My contacts? For one reason or another most of them are now useless. Lesson #1: people won't cash in a favor that they might want/need to use themselves one day. Only someone who is really established or in a non competing field is going to help you.
Story analysts can actually get into the Editor's Guild. Small catch, companies in the guild have to hire analysts in the guild and you can't get into the guild unless you work for a company in the guild. I apply to PA and WA jobs when I come across them but never get replies. I have a couple of feature spec scripts, a TV spec and working on another TV spec now. I mention to my boss at the internship I'm a writer and he actually asks to read a script! I get all excited at what I think is my first break and two weeks later we meet to discuss it. It becomes evident that he's only read 20 pages. All his plot questions are answered in the second and third acts. He asks for a treatment so I pump out a nine page treatment. That was almost a month ago. Since then I've called and emailed and received no reply. I have three scripts here that I did the analysis for and that somebody must want back. The guy seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth.

So as I look back on the past year I have experience as a reader and technically got read and I guess that's not too bad. I still feel like I'm back at square one though. From what I gather a lot of breaking in is being at the right place at the right time. Not quite sure what my next move should be. I'm leaning toward continuing with the reading.