tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post7369427397371812921..comments2024-03-22T14:40:33.276-07:00Comments on Blood, Sweat, and Tedium: Confessions of a Hollywood Juicer: The FearMichael Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-10897695867121455962014-06-26T18:12:36.087-07:002014-06-26T18:12:36.087-07:00Michael -
I'm too stubborn to give up.Michael - <br /><br />I'm too stubborn to give up.Niallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-41065119832269353882014-06-23T16:11:23.891-07:002014-06-23T16:11:23.891-07:00Jessie M --
It's happened to us all at one ti...Jessie M --<br /><br />It's happened to us all at one time or another (some of us more than once...), and in some ways is only natural. We humans have a tendency when things are going well to assume this will continue -- that "things going well" is the natural order of life -- but as we all learn in time, it's not. <br /><br />More like the opposite, unfortunately.<br /><br />"Pride goeth before a fall," the good book says, and on that count the book got it right. All any of us can do is roll with the punches and be a bit wiser next time.<br /><br />Niall --<br /><br />Wow -- ten days in six months... that's a real bitch. I had three days over the first three months back in 2010 -- my worst stretch in fifteen years -- but things got a lot better after that.<br /><br />Sorry to hear the Northwest is suffering so badly, and I hope the good weather of summer brings more work for you all. <br /><br />Hang tough...Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-66437091530632742092014-06-23T10:10:39.963-07:002014-06-23T10:10:39.963-07:00I can relate to this very we'll. The Northwest...I can relate to this very we'll. The Northwest has seen a very catastrophically bleak year. What little work i have gotten, 10 days since Jan 1st, has been a god send. The sad part is I'm doing better than most of my peers right now. Luckily I have learned to save for such times. The toll on my pride is steep, and my mind races seeing every shadow as a possible end to my career. As many in my situation I have a lot of hard decisions to make about my going forward. You'd think I'd learn to cope better, but the good times make the bad seem less so. It's like your first bad stretch all over again.Niallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-9506452190459655672014-06-22T12:33:00.000-07:002014-06-22T12:33:00.000-07:00Damn that's a poetic post.
Last year I was wo...Damn that's a poetic post.<br /><br />Last year I was working A LOT - back to back gigs stretching from mid July to November, then I had nothing for the first week of December. I decided to use the week as a well earned break and chill out, I was confident that I had finally "made it", and that calls would keep coming my way. I guess I got complacent. Hell, smug even. The one call I did get I turned down because the rate wasn't what the last few months had made me accustomed to. Anyways, reality kicked me in the ass and I didn't work again until February of this year.<br /><br />I've also made the construction crew-film crew connection myself, but I like to joke that a major difference is nobody crowds around construction crews and goes "so...whatchu building?"Jesse M.noreply@blogger.com