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I AM LEAVING THIS FUCKING JOB FOREVAR!!!!1!!!

 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
11:44 / 04.10.05
Ok, so I work (statement valid for the next 4 weeks) at a lovely Internet and mobile marketing company where we do lots of stuff for Nokia and pitch to the likes of Coca-Cola, even though I have a degree in theatre.

And but so last week I was at a festival in Cairo and this Italian who saw our performance invited me (still tentative) to perform in Syracuse (Sicily, not New York) in a Greek theatre that seats like thousands of people. Apparently the 2006 season includes Lysistrata with a chorus of 25 women, one from each of the EU countries. I am Miss Tragic Finland, and I'm going to get paid to live on the Mediterranean waters.

But omg, how on earth am I going to survive? I basically had to quit because my rehearsal schedules (still 2 shows to do before the Sicily gig) are doing my head in when I try to combine them with my 9-5 job. So there you have it. I just quit a nice job to go follow a dream. And I can't tell if I'm happy underneath all the terror.

How's your day?
 
 
Jub
12:05 / 04.10.05
Well done Wembley - you're doing the right thing! First electric Monk, now you - it's madness I tell you!

Seriously though - that's really good news. Well done.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:14 / 04.10.05
Wicked news, wembley. Fucking nice one! If a few other 'lithers had the balls to make a jump (myself included) the board would be a much happier place, I reckon.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
12:20 / 04.10.05
Yes, agreed. I love my job in many ways, and the place I work is staffed by generally really nice people with whom I get on very well, but if I could somehow make the leap into doing a really cool thing, I would. So congratulations on following your heart.
 
 
Baz Auckland
12:21 / 04.10.05
Survival always works itself out... the important thing is suddenly finding yourself in Sicily on a whim!
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
12:27 / 04.10.05
I'm busy planning my return to Canada and wandering if, after buying a cheaper than one-way return ticket I can blag a partial refund for the unused portion.

Not quite scary but quite exciting.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
13:04 / 04.10.05
Thanks, guys - every supportive word on the subject makes me feel a little less terrified, so it's all good. Basically, this is probably the best job I've ever had (great people, challenging, very good money), but I lacked the momentum to give it up and go full-on to theatre. Somehow, with my insane rehearsal schedule the timing just kicked in, and Sicily is a little bit of a kick in the pants to give me a head start, and voila. How many cliches have I wasted so far?

So. Will wash windows. As long as it's on my own schedule.
 
 
Baz Auckland
13:20 / 04.10.05
Bah! Forget window washing! Just get a fishing line, build a small shelter on a nearby beach, and there you go!

...at least that's how I picture Sicily....
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:22 / 04.10.05
No way, dude. You gotta be connected, capeesh?
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
13:38 / 04.10.05
Just noticed that you may have the most apt screen name.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:25 / 04.10.05
Wembley: I always told you it'd happen. Di'n't I?

Di'n't I?

Well done, you.
 
 
Ariadne
23:41 / 04.10.05
wembley, good for you! It'll be great. And if it's not, then the next thing will be - well done on going for what you want. I did it, and I'm sitting in Boston doing a job I love, after bailing out on a job that was very 'good', but just not right.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
06:48 / 05.10.05
Rothko, you di'd.

Ta all - and seldom: now how am I going to keep my username current if I can only do it once every 28 days?
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
06:50 / 05.10.05
forgot to mention: a €60 bottle of veuve-cliquot bought for you by a friend and getting-a-promotion colleague at helsinki's only decent gay bar at 2 in the morning on a tuesday REALLY can take the edge off a transition.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
09:25 / 05.10.05
Judging by the way you massively pre-empted this shift in your life, I'm guessing that you have mad psykik skillz and thus will have no problem.
 
 
electric monk
11:36 / 05.10.05
Congrats Wembly. And best of luck! It is a fine thing to chase a dream, and a finer thing still to leave an advertising job.

'Tis madness indeed. Divine madness!
 
 
grant
13:26 / 05.10.05
I don't think I'll make it to the Mediterranean for the production, but I'd love to see photos of it....
 
 
Quantum
13:39 / 05.10.05
Congrats!

If a few other 'lithers had the balls to make a jump there'd be nobody here, would there?

'If droids could think there'd be none of us here would there?' copyright Obi-wan Kenobi, Shitepisode 3
 
 
Morpheus
08:02 / 06.10.05
Well done. It is a year ago since I closed my store and became a total shit head. After moving 9 times and pissing off anyone who told me I had to work, I'm ready to move into my own place here in L.A. I still do not have a job. My music and art have taken me to a place I'd rather be, broke and smelling bad most of the time. It will make baths seem like the best thing a man can do, so it will give you perspective on life. Work? Fuk money, don't need it or want it. I have two bags and two guitars, many songs. Most people hate me and I'm going no where, but the two or three people who still know me, they love me. True Love. Unconditional. It is scary knowing that you are putting yourself at risk, and most people won't respect your choice. I am not homeless, I am Home free. I just suggest you stick to healthy food and watch what you say and what you put in yourself. It helps to do the things you know you should be, even if life(people) tells you you can't. Actors, artists and musicians are mostly doomed. The bogus corporate zombies are everywhere, ready to hate on your ass right when you find something sweet.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
11:41 / 06.10.05
Actors, artists and musicians are mostly doomed.

There's something about that statement that puts me in a good mood.

I mean, it's not to say that I won't be doing some freelance corporate-y writing every once in a while to put my money where my rent is. I don't mind being a corporate bitch (or doing the awful, humiliating corporate acting gigs) all that much as long as I repeat the mantra: this is training. this is training...
 
 
electric monk
12:02 / 06.10.05
True dat. I'm still tethered to a Human Resource Outsourcing corp. via freelance graphic work. Puts food on the table 'n such, but not ideal by any means. "This is training" is a damn good attitude to have. I'm going to remember that.



Morpheus, you are Joel Biroco and I claim my five pounds/dollars/euros/dinari/whatever. (Is that how it goes?)
 
  
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