Please...come in, and welcome. My name is Deb. I'm in my third semester at Brandman, having begun my college career at U.S.C. back in the days we were herding dinosaurs up Exposition Blvd. A former Journalism major, I am now back finishing my degree with a major of Liberal Studies: Culture and Media Studies. I work for a studio - a big one. I've been there for five years as a receptionist, a job I jumped at after I was laid off from my job running the A/R department of a small security company and have discovered has absolutely no opportunities. If you want to know what I look like, I'm on page 119 of the February issue of "Real Simple" magazine. That was NOT a good hair day, btw. I no longer indulge in career aspirations. I'm happy to survive. But I want to finish my degree, I put it on hold a million years ago.
I love theater, movies and literature more than anything. I'm hardly going to break into the business and, I'm at the point where I'm just trying to retire instead of dying at my desk. I would love to teach. I would love to teach kids theater and/or American literature, or perhaps work with a community theater. I would love to teach high school kids why Dr. Seuss isn't just for kids and how to compare the Whos to the Joads.
I think I'm a fair hand with Internet research but my library skills go back to the Dewey Decimal System, that's something I would like to become more skilled in. Such an interesting point made in the readings...the more we have at out fingertips, the harder it is to figure out what we need. Every now and then I see a stat from someone who has read my blog (no, not this one) and how they got there and I think "what are you, NUTS? Why did you click on my blog when you were searching for THAT?" There's a lot of finesse in this Internet research, isn't there?
(Gregory Brown LBSU 302 week 2 reply)
ReplyDeleteDeb,
Congratulations on getting back into the academic ballgame. My name is Gregory Brown I too have a very large background in theater. My first attempt at school was a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama with an emphasis in classical theater. Basically I lived for Shakespeare, Marlow, and Moliere. After my junior year I got offered an internship that was too good to pass up. I left the states for a while and moved to the U.K. where I was an intern with the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was a wonderful time. After about two years, I landed back in the states and made a serious go of it as an actor in L.A. After my 4th or 5th commercial for Joe’s Crab Shack I started to get worried. Sure I was working, but it was not where my heart was. Indeed, it seemed that any audition I was interested in was replete with a bevy of other men all of whom were taller, darker, and had a much, much better set of abs than I did.
In the end, I ended up moving back home and have been working with a software company in San Luis Obispo for the past 2 years. Now, I’m married to a wonderful woman and have a beautiful little girl. My unparalleled desire is to be able to support my family the best I can. In that vein, I’ve decided to go back to school. Currently I’m an undergraduate in Psychology. After I finish I plan on moving on to law school.
In the end, there is hope for theater people in the real world. I’ve found that for me, the biggest challenge was recognizing that despite the fact I had trained, and shed my blood sweat and tears, the entire process has brought me to where I am now, and I am much the better for it.
Wonderful to see another person with experience in my field.
Hi Deb, It's good to have someone I know from another class. How is this class going for you. It seems that it will be real helpful. Well, I got to go because I'm still finishing up the week. We will talk again.
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