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Barbarella wrote:
This is gonna be a sappy post.
Every few years, everything goes to absolute shit, and then just falls right back into place on its own
I've lost count of times things have completely crumbled, and then I get an email or a phone call that changes my life.
Over the past five months my health, both physical and mental, has absolutely tanked - and working for Starbucks has consistently exacerbated the symptoms of my osteoarthritis to the point I can't even work in my garden. I've quite literally been in bed every minute I've not been at work or at a show.
and then
Thursday I was called to a "short meeting" that turned out to be two hours where my mentor (if this contract comes through, which it will), would like to hire me to help un-fuck and simplify her systems and untangle her professional life - a personal assistant, though she hates that phrase. Part time, but enough to pay my bills, allowing my self-employed projects to be my "everything else" money.
and then yesterday a documentary filmmaker out in California reached out wanting to contract me to dig through public domain archives of newspapers, adult magazines, and film advertisements, to collect images to be used in the movie. I didn't even ask about the pay, because I would have said yes no matter what the check was, I support the fuck out of his project - I even backed his kickstarter two years ago. I've been doing this for fun since I was a teenager, and I'd never really considered the fact that knowing how to manipulate the search engines, and weed out the useful from the not useful images, was a skill - but it is.
Y'all if you are good at something, don't undervalue yourself, don't pull the "but someone else is better" shit, don't be timid and do things under the radar - because when folks see your skills, and more importantly when they see your unique passions, they will notice and remember you.
This is gonna be a sappy post.
Every few years, everything goes to absolute shit, and then just falls right back into place on its own
I've lost count of times things have completely crumbled, and then I get an email or a phone call that changes my life.
Over the past five months my health, both physical and mental, has absolutely tanked - and working for Starbucks has consistently exacerbated the symptoms of my osteoarthritis to the point I can't even work in my garden. I've quite literally been in bed every minute I've not been at work or at a show.
and then
Thursday I was called to a "short meeting" that turned out to be two hours where my mentor (if this contract comes through, which it will), would like to hire me to help un-fuck and simplify her systems and untangle her professional life - a personal assistant, though she hates that phrase. Part time, but enough to pay my bills, allowing my self-employed projects to be my "everything else" money.
and then yesterday a documentary filmmaker out in California reached out wanting to contract me to dig through public domain archives of newspapers, adult magazines, and film advertisements, to collect images to be used in the movie. I didn't even ask about the pay, because I would have said yes no matter what the check was, I support the fuck out of his project - I even backed his kickstarter two years ago. I've been doing this for fun since I was a teenager, and I'd never really considered the fact that knowing how to manipulate the search engines, and weed out the useful from the not useful images, was a skill - but it is.
Y'all if you are good at something, don't undervalue yourself, don't pull the "but someone else is better" shit, don't be timid and do things under the radar - because when folks see your skills, and more importantly when they see your unique passions, they will notice and remember you.
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