What's your job? What's your passion?
What's your job? What's your passion?
#0What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:14pm
My job: I make a living doing the billing for my family's marine diesel engine repair company in Florida.
My passion: writing - short stories, fiction, on message boards, etc.
Also, books, music and I've pretty much been obsessed with broadway since I saw Aida on tour two years ago. I'm a late-bloomer, I know :).
Oh, I almost forgot, I wanted to know if any of you are actively pursuing a career on broadway. Are you living in NY and auditioning?
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Hi Everybody,
I lost track of my thread over the weekend because I was in the Bahamas for Easter (sucks for me, I know).
Anyway, thanks to all of you who responded. I just finished reading all of your posts, very impressive. We have lots of talent and ambition on these boards.
It's funny that so many of you only post from home because I'm the opposite, I only post from work. I guess the rest of BWW are actually working while on the clock ... oops. Plus, I'm on this computer from 8-5, so I don't even want to see my computer when I get home.
Another thing that cracked me up was how almost all of the people who listed writing or journalism as jobs, also listed at least one other job, because the money is so so bad. I can relate, and that's exactly why I'm no longer putting my journalism degree to good use.
To all the youngsters, you know who you are, I'm so impressed with how driven you all are. I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do until I was 23, and then I ended up doing something else anyway. If you know what you want, you're already ahead of the game, so just keep working. You definitely seem to have the confidence.
Some of you have very admirable jobs/passions, so I'm calling you out. Sweetiedarlinmia and Uncageg both work with programs that expose kids, especially minorities, to theater; Chlydomnestra is a child and youth case manager for an outpatient mental health facility, and JHartnow works with Broadway Cares/Equity fights Aids. Just wanted you to know, I think you guys rock.
Also, two people were cool enough to tell us about their stage experience.
"I am just a dumb dancer, it's not brain surgery but I enjoy it" --Di2
Ok, Di2, I mean this in the nicest possible way. SHUT UP! All the kids who posted in this thread would kill to have your resume someday, and most of us sitting at our boring desk jobs too, for that matter. I'm sure you worked your ass off to get where you are, so don't downplay the acheivement, ok? LOL
And Natalie 2 (very cool) - Would I have seen you in 42nd Street at the Broward Center in Ft. Lauderdale near the end of last year?
Oh, and how could I forget, if any of you are near JFK anytime soon, you have to catch Dollypop's show:)!
Alright, I think I typed enough for a week.
Thanks again,
Gina
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
Updated On: 3/29/05 at 02:14 PM
#1re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:19pm10th grade Student who wants to do SOMETHING theatre related..either on the stage, in the wings, part of production, an usher! anything that'll revolve around broadway!! or nyc!!
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#2re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:22pm
Job- High School Senior (47 more school days) who works as an actor when I can and a waiter when I must.
Passion-Performing and directing.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
mirramar
Broadway Star Joined: 2/3/05
#3re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:25pm
I'm a graphic Designer in NYC.
My passion: everything theater related, my goal is to see every show as it comes out.
Updated On: 3/23/05 at 02:25 PM
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#4re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:27pm
Job: High school student
Passion: Lighting designer, or a master electrician (on tour).
CCM '10!
Updated On: 3/23/05 at 02:27 PM
#5re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:34pmpersonal trainer-front desk clerk-student in ft laud FL
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#6re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:34pm
Job: Associate Marketing Analyst at RR Donnelley in New York City. LOVE my job...couldn't be happier.
Passion: Broadway. I plan on seeing every new musical and revival that ever comes out on broadway for the rest of my life.
#7re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:40pm
job(s) - college senior, lifeguard, after-school program/camp counselor
passion - theatre...REALLY looking to be on stage, but willing to work in any aspect of it.
#8re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 2:45pm
I sell reference books/eBooks to school libraries in Hawaii and Southern California.......
passion: Travel, Bavarian/Austrian history, Musical Theater
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#9re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:19pmI'm currently unemployed, and so my job AND my passion is working on my book to get music ready to audition with. Thats about it right now.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#10re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:24pm
Engineer working for a defense company in NJ.
Coached girls soccer and loved it, now going to Broadway plays and Vegas!
#11re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:29pm
occupation: High School senior soon to be College freshman. I will go to CSULB to major in nursing and minor in music. might change because i'm thinking about pursing musical theater as a career. i'm not too sure yet.
passion: Singing! I love being in choir. Reading, drawing, swimming (waterpolo), and the Internet (how could I survive without it?)
Yes, I'm pinay. And I'm proud of it!
#12re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:32pm
I am blessed to have a job about which I am passionate. I am the Assistant to the Dean and Senior Pastor of the world's largest liberal Christian church with a predominantly lesbian, gay and transgender outreach.
That said, my passion is, of course, theater.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#13re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:35pm
right now: I am a student, but I plan on possibly majoring in political science {with a minor in musical theatre} and then going to law school in NYC. I am a part of a ton of extracurriculars... and I plan to be a camp counselor this summer.
passion: musical theatre, singing in choirs, photography, Latin... ect.
NIL MAGNUM NISI BONUM "No greatness without goodness."
RENThead, enLIGHist, Ozalot, Grobanite, Ringer, Pickwick LW, Wicked, Lost, American Dreams, West Wing
Lea S. Hugh J. Adam P. Idina M. Matt M. Taye D.
#14re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:40pm
job...library and grocery store/student
passion...business management for broadway
#15re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:48pm
I'm a travel agent.
My passions are musical theatre, singing, travelling, reading fiction and eating great food.
cur10call
Chorus Member Joined: 5/10/04
#16re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 5:44pm
Job: I travel around the country teaching and doing choreography for high school and college cheerleading and dance teams.
Passion: Musical Theater
#17re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 5:47pm
Job: Father
Passion: Journalism and Writing
#18re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 5:50pm
Job: College student.
Passion: THEATRE...anything and everything about it. I WILL work in theatre...it all just depends on when...but it WILL happen.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Updated On: 3/23/05 at 05:50 PM
#19re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:42pm
job- senior in high school baby!!!!!! graduation is so close yet so far!!!!! I am very undecided about what i want to do with my life!!
passion- theater, photography, part time music snob!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#20re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:45pm
Job: Acting major
Passion: Acting, singing, writing (screenplays), or directing
bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#21re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:48pm
job- high school student... i also babysit and hope to start working at my dance studio this summer! i'm undecided about what i want to do in college, but i've been thinking about linguistics, international relations and of course dance/theatre.
passion- dance, broadway/musical theatre, reading, foreign languages
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#22re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:58pm
Job: English and Music Major
Passion: The performing arts, dramaturgy, bringing theatre to "minority" youth who have been pegged as "unteachable & unreachable"
eslgr8
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
#23re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:03pm
Must be because it's still daylight (at least here in L.A) because so far most who've responded have been students. Everyone else at work?
As to me:
JOB: I've been teaching English as a Second Language since a few months after my UCLA graduation, first abroad and since then at Cal State LA (that's where my screen name eslgr
comes from.
PASSION: Theater, both onstage and off. In 2004 I saw 120 productions and appeared in 3. Since traveling to New York last year, I've become musical obsessed (shades of my childhood) and have been scouring all the local libraries (luckily there are many many in this area) to add to my collection of now hundreds of cast recordings.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#24re: What's your job? What's your passion?
Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:05pm
job: webmaster / graphic design work
passion: art
