Don;t get me wrong I love baltimore. and I could tread water here for the rest of my life, but I want to get out while the getting's good (still young), even though it could very well lead to treading water somewhere else, at least id have the challenge of getting comfortable again. It does seem like the worst time to try and get work in a new place, but if i wait for a better economy I could die here.
Your doc idea sounds riveting and topical and discovery airs a lot of crap so long as they didnt have to pay money to produce it. I look forward to seeing some dailies.
I actually worked for discovery here in silverspring MD cutting for a couple weeks until they found out I didnt have the proper training (i must have interviewed so well they didnt notice it wasn;t on my resume.) I was cutting lots of garbage they bought from independent production houses down to discovery runtime and slapping the discovery logo on the end. Spoke candidly about my background with the wrong backstabbing corporate climber and found myself let go. the woman who I shadowed had been doing this thrilling task for six years though, so apparently if you are good they dont move you up, they keep you there. It would have been a steady gig and I would have been able to save a lot more money by now than I have as a freelancer, but I have had some wild jobs in the intervening 4 years and learned a lot, and I learned everything i could have learned from that job in the two weeks before they gave me the boot (despite performance well above standard) except perhaps how to successfully navigate corporate politics (not a skill i truly want to possess.) i did learn to keep my mouth shut and to trust no one in these types of environments though.
wow i guess im still bitter a little bit. huh. and still way off topic. oh well. I guess this crap is on my mind a lot lately. I wish someone would stick some tape on my tank, surely the rage would take my mind off everything else.
if we all removed all our posts would this thread go away?
who's with me?
