Life V.3

So, my life updated at this hour may be a little disjointed or seemingly rushed, so perhaps it is a terrible idea that I do a blog update right now.

In a nutshell you say? I can't remember if I ever wrote about my career after college. If you read any of my old posts from back in the day in Tampa, you know I was struggling and suffering. Then I moved back down to S. FL where I worked in an ad agency for a few months, but it felt like eternal hell. I left all that, recharged my batteries in China and came back home fully determined to get into production...whatever the hell that MEANS!

It will be two years this May that I'll officially say I've been working in "production." Long time right? I didn't ever get any serious jobs till September 2008 and it never REALLY picked up till March of 09. Its been trial and tribulation, patience, persistence, pestilence, stress, emotional, almost giving up, applying for "shite" jobs, lowering standards, reaching too high, resumes, and the list goes on and on. Now, almost a two years after I made my "official switch" I can boldly say I've done it. I've broken into the field I've always dreamed of breaking into. I've worked on jobs that I'm absolutely thrilled I got to do.

In the past year, I've gotten to work on a music video, tv reality shows, feature films, a ton of commercials, documentaries, and who knows what else I've forgotten. What have I learned in these past couple of years? I effing LOVE MY DAMN CAREER. I can't say "job" as they're all different, but this freelancing life has really kind of paid off. I'm still working on building a more solid foundation for myself, but that whole traditional dream of finding yourself the 9 to 5 job with benefits and safety it is not for me. Its amazing how there is this whole other world, this gypsy world, so free, so different and yet so established that tons of people live like this. And it pays off really well. You don't normally get the office drama because you always work with different people. There are so many pros and cons, so many tiring relentless hours and often nasty people, and yet, I do it whole-heartedly and without the slightest hesitation. Its scary to be out on my own like this, planning the next step so that I stay busy and make money, some people (ok most people) don't seem to have the backbone for this kind of lifestyle, which I COMPLETELY understand, and yet, I've done the 9 to 5 thing, I've done the cubicle desk job and now I know for absolutely sure that it is NOT for me.

Phew! So damn liberating! I really do have the best job in the world.

More later, fingers hurt and sleep beckons.