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I realize that I don't really know you well at all, but as someone who left school with the intentions of going back to become a teacher and never made it, I'd suggest finishing it through at least until your 100% sure what it is that you want to do with your life. Take it from me, regret is an evil thing.

Having a teaching degree as a fall back option is money in the bank and if it's what you've always wanted to do, chances are you are just in a rut.

yeah, I hear ya on that. I really need to bite the bullet and take some online classes and move towards getting a degree.

I mean hell even if it takes 10 years, I'd still be 36 with a degree and able to teach. That's better than nothing, right?

1. #1Elph, I'm going through the same existential crisis as you, except that I've got too many things I want to do, and only 24 hours in a day. So it's not so much what is my purpose in life, but how do I get everything done?? I would stick with Patronus on this one - think of it as, "I work to live, not I live to work." Teaching (once you're in) has a fair amount of job security, and it'll permit you to pursue other interests as well! My parents are kicking the grad/law school issue AGAIN for next fall, but there's so much on my plate already that they're accusing me of "starting to lose focus". Back to you though, I would also recommend finding some interning jobs in the city if you're serious about pursuing a film/theatre career.

2. Speaking of which, I've got some bad news, Mabs. Turns out my boss got wind of my planned holiday in December because a backstabbing co-worker let it "slip" this morning, when I specifically told her to keep her trap shut for a month while I find another job. Because of union agreements, I'm not allowed to take time off work from late-Oct to late-Dec, and any reneging of that agreement means termination. So my boss phoned me up today and said I've got to decide whether I'm going to skip my already-booked-and-paid-for trip and keep my job, or lose it. And she told me it needs to be done 'soon' so they can find my replacement. Long story short, I'm going to be out of a consistent job in a matter of weeks, and financially speaking, I'm royally screwed for New York unless I can find a new job by, like, next week. (I actually burst into tears at work, in front of the customers and other co-worker. If I wasn't so upset, I would have been mortified. And then the co-worker who blabbed walked in and feigned blustering ignorance. That made me cry more than anything else - she was like a hip grandma to me!)

3. The Quick Coach time you found me that leaves from SeaTac airport at midnight is only on Saturdays!! Sucky too, because I found some great prices and itineraries on expedia.ca/.com from Delta, but it won't work unless I leave New York later on Tuesday or Wednesday morning.




I'm so crushed about this. I wanted a month to get my bearings together and figure out how I was going to finance everything, and now I've been bitten in the ass by office politics. That's the Libra in me - too trusting of people who aren't worthy. Rickman = sex *ew*" width="14" height="14" src=https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/board/sad.gif>

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2. Nope, nada on taking time off, because if I take time off (and I've got the second-to-lowest seniority out of all of the staff), then everyone else is going to protest and demand their time off too. Even people who've been working with the company since 1974 aren't allowed to take time off over Christmas, apparently. My biggest worry is finding a new job ASAP. I sort of burned a lot of bridges when I got this job because I thought it would sustain me until the end of the year, and then I'd find new work in the new year. I didn't realize I'd be in a jam like this, 4 months early! (On the bright side, my set list really was pretty darn awesome. On the major down side, I don't get to meet Mabel and Ellie, and I don't get to see U2 on my milestone birthday, and I don't get to catch any theatre or eat any gourmet food or shop in the Village and traipse around like Carrie Bradshaw!! Rickman = sex *ew*" width="14" height="14" src=https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/board/sad.gif>)

1. Are you more interested in theatre or film? Even if it's theatre, are you not at all interested in pursing film/TV? Because I think since the community is larger, it would be easier for you to find jobs in that field over theatre, at least for a while until you're settled. You could probably try to get PA work in NYC, right? Have you checked Craigslist yet? When I was looking through there a few months ago, there were several listing for entry level positions in theatre and film production companies.


PS. If you're still online, replying to me, I'll BRB. My contacts are killing me and I need to get ready for bed!

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Updated On: 8/23/05 at 04:49 AM

Hey! One thing going right for me today! I just found my Achtung Baby CD! It was buried under a pile of papers and clothing on my bed! *wipes bead of sweat away* I was so panicked that I lost it, you have no idea.

Back to commiserating, yeah, if I don't wind up going to New York this year, I'll definitely go next year. As long as there's a place to stay, then I should be able to save up a thousand dollars fairly easily to get me there and sustain me for a week! And if U2 really play Fenway next year, I'm all over that. (For some reason, there were ridiculously cheap roundtrip flights to Boston in May this year, so fingers crossed that happens again next year! At the very least, I can buy a ticket to Boston and bus to NYC!) It just would have been nice to go in the fall and ring in my birthday with Bono and you folks! (And of course, missing you terribly, #1!)

I'll help you check out Craigslist tomorrow. Tonight, I'm gonna finish reading that U2 book and make a list of things I need to do tomorrow to get my life back in check! (#1 - Take my preventative Hep shot in the morning! Woo!) Then we can pore over job openings together, and I'll weigh the likeliness that these companies will love me so much they'll trudge through the red tape and get me a work visa!

ETA: Okay, I'm off to finish reading! We'll talk tomorrow! Ciao!

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Updated On: 8/23/05 at 05:11 AM

Oooooh, you lucky devil! Pity you're in NZ. I may just have to steal that right from under ya! And in Gramercy, no less. Swanky.

*sigh*

I'll reply to the rest later. I have to take a shower and get ready for work, so I'm not an hour late again (usually not entirely my fault...though I did wake up at 7:50 yesterday. That didn't exactly help!)

OK...I'm at work, soooo ETA:

Tiff, that really sucks about the pharmacy. What a wench! Seriously, it was none of her damn business to rat you out. I really don't know what to say. I'm trying to scheme here. Isn't there some crappy retail job or something that you can finangle for a month...or is there enough PA work to tide you over for the time being? Also, what about selling the Las Vegas tix and the extra pair of 400 MSG tix that you'd bought for 10/10. Weren't the Vegas tix $100 each. Even if you didn't make a huge profit on them, I could see you snagging $300 for the two of them, and you could probably sell the pair for MSG for $200, so that'd pay for your plane ticket, right? And then once you're here, you've got a free place to stay (though there really is no way I could put you up for a whole week. I think 4 days is kind of my max. I wish, wish, WISH I had an apartment so I could put you up as long as you wanted to stay, but alas I don't, so I can't. Not that it's a route you'd necessarily want to go, but my friend who was interning at NYU med. this summer got booted out of her dorms a couple weeks sooner than the internhship ended, and she was staying at a youth hostel, in a private room no less, for only $30/day. You'd just be there to sleep, so for a couple of nights it might not be so bad.

Back to the existential crisis...Elphie, at least you can have some solace in the that you'll have a degree and a certificate for something useful and tangible and in demand (that you also, to some extent, have a drive for...whether it's to the same degree as theatre or not, it's at least still there). I, on the other hand, only have a degree in English, and we all know what they have to say about that in Avenue Q!!! I feel like I've wasted my college years. I've gone to a pretty crap school, that is essentially a joke to have gotten my BA from. I should have just sucked up being in crazy debt and gone for Fordham. But it's not even completely and solely the education (well, the name that's going to be on my degree is more what freaks me out: Pace? Isn't that a business school?!?!) I feel like I've wasted my college years from a social stand-point. Yeah, I've got friends, but not the all-encompassing mass of people that you see in movies and on TV shows and hear from friends who go to real colleges...with a campus and a lawn where people hang out. Instead, we've got a caged in cement lot in the center of one of the TWO buildings we have on our "campus" which is basically only occupied by the onslaught of smokers. In the dorms, we have a lovely lounge w/ all these nice leather couches and a huge flat screen TV...there's never ANYONE THERE! I was going to go down during the MLB playoffs to watch the game and it was completely empty. Wouldn't you expect Game 7, Yankees vs. Red Sox would draw some sort of a crowd?!?!?! Then in the actual rooms, the doors lock behind you, and everyone just goes about their business. It's actually kind of sad.

Anyway, back to work for a bit. Talk to you guys later!

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Updated On: 8/23/05 at 07:32 AM

Blech...not looking forward to the "real world" and the horrors of office politics and the woes that go along w/ that beuracracy. Rickman = sex *ew*" width="14" height="14" src=https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/board/sad.gif> It's so depressing.

Oh, and Tiff...any hope of getting any cash from family for your birthday?? I think my last couple of relatives that used to cut me a check are going to fizzle out this year, but I don't know how it is on your end. And what about your "real life" friends. Maybe you could ask for a pooled "send me away for my birthday fund" as a gift?? Though, if they're anything like my (sometimes) shoddy friends, you'll be lucky if they even remember. Seriously, no one remembered my birthday last year. It was really pretty depressing. Though, I finally broke down and said something at like 11pm (can I just say that it was incredibly sad to get a generic "how's it going" phone call, and having to pathetically tack on..."and sense it's my birthday" at the end). Anyway, they all felt guilty and brought me out for some drinks, and all was forgiven, but STILL.

Anyway, back to family and birthday money...I love how aunts and uncles and stuff would load me up as an 8 year old, but now I'm 20 and I really need the extra cash, and they've all disappeared. I wish they'd just put it all into a big kitty for the college years. I'd have probably been pissed at the time, but man, would I be appreciating that now?! What are you going to do w/ that cash at 8 or 10?!?

ETA: OMG! I want it!!!

New Theater Scout
Category: Intern
Description: Theater Talk, the weekly discussion show on Thirteen, seeks diverse group of young adults to help keep us up-to-date on new theater in New York Tri-state area. Seeking young writers* (college-25) who are discerning, highly coherent and have time to attend theater (off-off Broadway and beyond) to report to our producer about it. E-mail us resume and short writing sample(s). (Also, let us know what computer skills - if any - you have.) NO calls please. If we are interested, we will contact you about an interview. *note: NOT an on-air position.
Job Start Date: 10/1/2005
Job End Date: 5/1/2006
Salary: subway expenses; free theater tickets

Drawback: I don't really have any relavent writing samples to submit! Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!!! How much fun would that be?!?! And I could mock Michael Riedel! Icing on the cake!

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Updated On: 8/23/05 at 10:54 AM

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat??

You're not going to NYC, Tiff?

But...but...what on earth is more important than meeting me? Rickman = sex *ew*" width="14" height="14" src=https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/board/sad.gif>

Can't you just pretend you're not going away after all, keep your job and then hand in a week's notice at the end of November or something? And you have access to the pharmacy till, don't you??

Seriously, that succcccccccks.

And yeah, I totally know how you all feel about your English majors and all that worry. I empathize completely. At least I have at least a couple of years before I really start to panic. Bah, why did I choose something I was interested in instead of something that would actually give me some security?

Bye then.

Well, you never know...and it would take some nerve! Maybe if we tell them it's to send her to an internet-less Outer Mongolia we'd get more money.

And rant away, Mabel. I'm here! (Alas. Rickman = sex *ew*" width="14" height="14" src=https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/board/sad.gif> I've just aborted an attempted nap). I want to hear it - I'm in a bit of a slump today, so maybe I can glean some pleasure from your misfortune!

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 04:11 PM

There's always a chance that it would do nothing but totally embarass Tiff! (So yeah, let's do it!)

And instead of ranting, let's just wallow together. What are the chances that any of us will make it? Who knows...but have faith!

*wallows with mabel*

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 04:21 PM