Nice guys finish last...

Well, I have applied to no fewer than 100 jobs in the last week and a half. I have heard back from 2 places.

Place #1:
Being a production assistant on a short film shoot August 1-3 close to my home (unpaid, but it will be good experience and a nice resume line). I hope to make contacts to get some more work headed my way.

Place #2:
A Noise Within - a theater company in Glendale (about 10 minutes away) - is considering hiring me as their house manager. The pay is not great ($65 per show), but there are 125 performances in their season which spans September through February. The Production Manager there is an Alum of CMU, so I am hoping it can lead to some run crew/assistant stage management gigs for a bit more $$, but I'll let you know. I will be interviewing with their artistic directors sometime after July 20th.

I'm kind of freaking out. There just aren't that many jobs to apply to. And believe me, I am applying to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING for which I may qualify. This does not mean just film, tv, and theater jobs. It means I have applied to be a nanny, cleaning lady, etcetcetc. There is no way to look at it other than - NO ONE IS HIRING.

It's either that or no one wants me. I would prefer to think of it as the former.

Anyway, I had a really great conversation with my friend, Rustin, who does pretty much what I want to be doing (and graduated 3 years ahead of me). He, too, is unemployed right now. But he gave me some people to email and some companies to look into so I am going to follow up with all of those leads before I tuck my tail between my legs.

I have been trying to balance the hours on end I spend applying for jobs with a few funtivities. I saw the second transformers movie and today Sam and I went grocery shopping. However, funtivities are hard when there is $0 coming in and $LOTS going out. I try to spend as little money as possible, but LA is expensive (at least compared to Pittsburgh), and I'm a bit nervous financially.

But that's enough brooding on that.

It's beautiful here. It hasn't rained once since I moved in. If I am going to be broke and unemployed it might as well be somewhere fabulous. And at least I have friends who are also unemployed so I am not home alone all day. Ahh! I thought I was going to stop brooding.

I suppose I am of a one track mind at the moment.

Tomorrow I might go get by CA license. That will be very exciting. If I can find a scanner I will scan it in so you all can see it.





Here is a photo I labeled Fridge Fiasco. This is evidence of our friends, Joe & Derek (Joe is the only one that can be seen in the picture as Derek is on the other side), hauling a disgusting refridgerator into our apartment that Sam and I bought off of Craigslist for $100.

The kicker?

The fridge didn't work.