Old Acting Blog

My amazing girlfriend Jacqui and I have been talking about the future. She’s over in Melbourne and I’m here in Los Angeles, and she challenged me on the trajectory of my acting career while I’ve been living here. She brought up lots of good points.

Then she re-sent me an article I had emailed her a while back:

http://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/backstage-experts/how-find-perfect-day-job/

I re-read it, and all of the comments.

I’ve been working for a family, taking care of their two kids, for three years. I’ve become ‘comfortable’, but not advancing like I could toward my acting career.. Come January I would like to find something else. I don’t know what yet, but I have a month and a half to figure that out. Instead of coming up with a list of the stuff I don’t want to do, I am going to follow the following advice from the article:

“First you take stock in your skill set and find what makes you unique. What are you really good at, and what would be of value to others? Then you start looking for work that allows you to use that skill set.”

I know my strengths are:
Learner
Restorative
Individualization
Futuristic
Context

And I’ve been listing out my other strengths on LinkedIn.

Now for finding a fit for work..

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Note: I want to start having photos with my blog entries to make them more fun to look at; I spent a too much time looking for this on free range stock photos. Someday I will use my own images. 😉

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