ATTENTION: This is an old post! I wish I just returned from Califronia after 9 luxurious days.
I'm reposting in hopes of getting another free month subscription.
I think I just found my dream job!!
Back on the farm after 9 luxurious days in California. Again with the lunching and dining. This was another laid back trip. No work this time and a little guilt because picking up a few days is always good. Our industry is not flourishing. Back in the day, before writers and actors played with crew member's futures, there was overly abundant production work available in Hollywood. Companies bid against each other and directors competed for the next high end beauty ad campaign. Then the writers strike, causing the industry to stop and stand still. This seemed to give reality TV a wide open door, creating continuing mayhem within the production industry. Companies took the high road. Ad execs lost funding to vacationing ad campaigns of the past. What does this mean?
Well back in the day there were the BIG JOBS. BIG JOBS were long traveling jobs. I used to have a running joke with a work mate about how ad agencies planned summer vacations around summer ad campaigns. Companies like Fanta, Revlon, and telcos would literally travel to 5 different countries to shoot 30, 60, and 90 second spots. The spots would air for all but a month before the next campaign was written. Now things have changed. Decade old production companies are closing their doors and prop houses that dressed the sets of your favorite TV shows and movies have been sold. Crew memebrs who spent their entire careers working on sets making movie magic are looking for opportunities outside of the industry. In case you haven't heard, California is going bankrupt and now other states are giving outrageous tax exemptions which is drawing work out of California. My theory: all the peeps who have not worked in production in months are living off of unemployment which in turn is causing the state to become bankrupt. 80% of the entertainment industry is now collecting unemployment. Along with the damn state taxes. So I am writing about all of this depressing information for one reason only. To introduce the use of http://www.media-match.com/ Folks the work is no longer in Ca, it's time to look elsewhere. Mediamatch.com is yes another social network, but do not be alarmed, this is to help those who work in production get production work. http://www.media-match.com/ is a site where one can list all of their talents and abilities in the production field. I have been using Mediamatch.com for the past 3 years. I am very impressed with the type of work offered: writing gigs for television, copy editing gigs for television series, camera assisting for independent films. Yes there is reality TV work offered, but in the same respect, (well not the same respect since reality TV is the spawn of the devil), there is a ton of television series work, and studio work available also. There is also movie work available, although most of the film work is offered outside of California. The one thing that veers people away from posting their abilities and talents on http://www.media-match.com/jobsboard.php is the fact that there is a one time annual fee of $60. Along with the fact that once the 60 bucks is paid, there is then the tedious task of filling out a media match profile.
Yes, profiles for social web media outlets are overrate, but please do not be discouraged by all of the questions that are being asked about your experience. It is to help match you with the perfect position. Look at it as another avenue for your resume or reel to be viewed by professionals who are looking to hire you. The reason for all of the questions is that Media Match uses the answers to "match" you with available jobs. That way you don't have to continuously look at the job board on the site. You do not have to wade throughout the sea of posts for that position that you are looking for. Media Match will email all of the jobs that fit your professional category straight into your inbox. No searching for you, they do all of that. The profile that you painstakingly filled out is not in vain, it allows the high end companies to look for well experienced crew members like you. It helps them wade out the 'riff-raff and wanna bees' and gives them access to the real professionals like you.
It doesn't promise anything but gives hope and direction that there is STILL work out there. Maybe not in CA, Media Match is a great avenue to see what work is out there and where. Another advantage to media match.com is, you can advertise yourself, and market yourself in more than one state. You can advertise all over the country. I wake up to at least 6 production job offers a day in my email box. Jobs offered in Chicago, to New York to LA. Now if only I was the mom who could trust another to raise my children, I would jump on all of them. It sure is nice on the ego to know that there is work out there interested in you.
SO that's my media match sh-peal! Media match has also made a deal with bloggers, if I blog about their service, I get free membership for a month. So jump on it folks!! Lay down the 60 bucks and fill out that profile or start blogging, I promise you wont regret it.
When I came home, I was amazed at the fence that my honey had worked sooo hard to build while I was away, He really is a phenomenal man. I am so please he has chosen me to be his life partner. How the heck did I get so blessed? Back in the day when I was single and lonesome, deep in my heart I knew he was coming, I knew I had a love for a lifetime somewhere out there and when he walked into my life that one day long ago on a Sprint television commercial set, I knew it was him. He will also tell you that, he just knew I was the one. (Can't say that it was as instantaneous as me), but once he knew there was no second guessing, no self doubt, no, "I'm not sure." Just pure 100%, We just knew. I just knew that he was the one God created for me.
So while I was away whooping it up at Hollywood parties and fantastic lunches and dinners with wonderful friends, he was watching my babies and building a fence around the 3 acres around the house. Now Abigail can run free. She is no longer tied up or frustrated enough to give me a black eye, or pull my Middle Little around out doors by her sleeve. (I came home to a badly bruised baby girl), she can gallivant around the property at her free will, and dig out any mole or chicken killing critter, and chase her nose. Never mind that he accidentally mowed down my hydrangea bed while I was away. It was my fault for not keeping up on the weeds around them this summer. I was to busy holding down the fort while he was slaving away fro some hot shot director. Oh well, there are far more seeds to be sown and well they weren't thriving where I had planted them anyway!
Every time I get cabin fever I jump out only to find that the ground is too hot every where else. The roots of this tree of life that I am growing are firmly planted in the soil of this farm. It's always nice to get out and see the world, not as nice and meaningful and fulfilling as it is to jump back in. Oh and the great news is....the kids go back to school TOMORROW!! YIPEE YAHOO YAHHAA!!! Let the real writing begin, and the painting and the designing and everything else I wasn't able to accomplish this summer because all of my free time was fully engrossed with my children who I am so blessed to be called "Mom!", a million times a day.
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