Is this what I went to college for?

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:28pm

I graduated in the top 5% of my college class, got a master's degree in political communication from a well-respected University, and I sit at a desk...doing nothing at an awful temp job so I can survive my cheap rent in a dirty basement apartment in Astoria, Queens.

All because I want to be an actor, and NYC gigs don't pay me well enough to live. And if I go out of town so I can pay the bills, I lose any opportunity to advance my career.

It would seem there should be a better survival job I could get with my qualifications...but something that I can audition while doing.

Anyone wiser than me have any ideas or advice? I'm having a hard day today, I guess. =)

Updated On: 9/8/05 at 02:28 PM

[Tired_O_Lurking]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:31pm

become a consultant.

Consultant: A $100K per year temp.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:37pm

Your question doesn't make sense - you don't want to pursue a career in what you went to college for. You've chosen instead to pursue a career in a field that's HIGHLY competitive.

Flexible survival jobs are hard to come by because people can't run their businesses when they have to work around the schedules of the people they are paying to be there.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:40pm

Consultant for what?

I do the same thing, touchme, as you know, and you make more than i do!!!

Still, it is frustrating, but it can also be exhilarating! You got nowhere to go but up! You don't have to worry about going broke, cause you already are...Being a successful actor is a crap shoot, and i do mean crap.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:41pm

politics and prostitution come to mind

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:46pm

thanks, lildogs...very true.

I've considered the consulting option...and may persue it further than I have. Thanks for the reminder.

Politics I would never want to do...prostitution, while a glamorous, moral, and repectable profession, might become so lucritive I wouldn't have time to audition.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:48pm

I got a degree in creative writing. I am a temporary receptionist. I did not expect to earn a living from creative writing, although I did have hopes, of course. I write on the side, send out submissions on the side, get rejections on the side , etc. I don't know what my point is other than if you're surviving, you're successful. Be proud of what you have done, but don't rest on those successes alone.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:55pm

Thought about hookin myself today...just couldn't make out with someone I don't like though...sex with someone I don't like is fine.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:58pm

{gasp}

What would your bf say?

Or does he like it when you get dirty for dollars?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 3:02pm

Oh lildogs, you don't have to kiss the clients.


Not that I would know that for any reason...

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 3:09pm

I would hope that you didn't go to college to learn to end sentences in prepositions!!

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 3:23pm

oh, convinceme, one thing we learn in college is that there are times where we use vernacular language, and times where we edit ourselves to conspire with the current American English grammar trend.

An internet thread is the former.

With that said, there are some universal rules: i.e. the their, they're, there distiction, lay/lie, affect/effect, etc.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 3:26pm

Are you talking to me, CM2? If so, you obviously did not read my post correctly. My degree is in CREATIVE writing. I don't go in for none a that grammer stuff.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 3:27pm

I doubt greg would enjoy me getting dirty for dollars unless he was making change.

You got a sharp eye for detail, Convince.