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Self-Management for Actors: Survival Jobs
Self-Management for Actors: Survival Jobs Join Bonnie Gillespie as she jams with showbiz creatives about survival jobs. You’ve gotta have your bills paid to run your business without stress and we’re gonna break down how…
Actor Getting His Mind Right
I have just started reading, straight through, Self-Management for Actors. While there is a lot of great information in there, the one part that really stuck out to me in the first section, about mindset,…
The Work: Ep. 0106 — Keep Your Survival Job to Yourself
Thank you for joining us for Episode 0106 of The Work. Download Here! Topics include: Rupert Murdoch’s expanding empire and the end of the distribution bottleneck; Superbowl ads; Bonnie begs you to keep your survival…
Thrival Jobs
Settle in for a long one, folks. Remember a couple of weeks back when Robert Keniston wrote in to ask for tips on balancing the need for a survival job with the nearly required networking…
Keep Your Survival Job to Yourself
A series regular friend and I were talking about a mutual actor friend who has taken on a survival job of selling some health drink. You know the one. The reason I’m sure you know…
Feedback on Stand-In Work
You might recall this great question about stand-in work from a Your Turn that ran in August. People tell me all the time that I look like [a particular name actor]. Enough to where I…
Stand-In Work
Can you stand a silly question? (Oh, PLEASE don’t make fun of me. I have nightmare visions of you now quoting me in one of your Actors Voice columns with the precursor, “Here’s a stupid…
Feedback on Actor Survival Jobs
I’ve received a lot of email about the Survival Jobs piece. This week’s Your Turn is a collection of thanks, advice, and perspective contributed by readers, followed by one last question. Enjoy! First email: I…
Best Survival Jobs for Actors
Last week’s Your Turn on survival jobs (and when to accept that juicy offer for a permanent position from your temp gig) generated a lot of email. To refresh your memory, a reader from New…