Better than Quizno’s, you might want to investigate generating content for interactive media like games. Writers are a growing part of that industry.
You’d have to leave your union membership at the door, though, because unions are not compatible with the fundamentals of software development. Unions represent job security for the incompetent, and that really doesn’t work in a field with a factor of ten differential in productivity.
As for the merits of the strike, I think Curly doesn’t go far enough. As I see it, Sony and GE come out ahead on a total restructuring of content production, and they can afford to ride it out. The ones who are going to get screwed are WGA, SAG, AMPTP and Hollywood.





