Saturday, January 19, 2008

Headshot Dilemma

So we've all heard of this starving artist thing, but I think people forget that sometimes it's still necessary to spend money to make money. Graduation from college in just a few short months I've been forced to look to the future to figure out what in the world am I going to do? But as an actor, my interview process is just a little different. Instead of cover letters, resumes, and recommendations, I have resumes, headshots, and a 90 second audition in front of over 125 companies to impress them into giving me a job. The headshot and resume was the worst part. Printing 125 of them was not only tedious, it was so expensive! I ended up going over to my friend's to spend countless hours watching Family Guy and waiting as my 8X10 headshots printed in Black and White at an average of four and a half minutes a piece. My friend is awesome. I totally kept her from hanging out with her boyfriend as she sat there in her ridiculous, too-small-for-her, youth-boy's one-sy and kept me company. She even let me borrow her flash drive to load up all my headshot pics and resume info so I could take that info and print it out at school (which was only alittle faster). I ended up having to spend close to $120 just in information to pass out to hopeful employers; That's way too much for a poor college student who is not even anticipating making any real money throughout his career!!!! I guess it's the same though as applying to Grad Schools, you have to pay for those too...so I guess it's the same...but its still annoying!

1 comment:

buxac said...

You're friend is pretty awesome. You're pretty awesome too, so I guess you deserve her. And my onesie is NOT too small!!