So recently if you haven't heard, i have been without a job. Not totally without a job, but definantly without a full time job. I was working full time at Danny Ganns, when they decided they only wanted or could afford 1 lighting guy. Thus, i was number 2, and had to be released. Now prior to this I had just started to think that things were looking up becuase i no longer had to depend on the part time- on call stagehand work i had begun to do in Vegas. Well having felt i was secure in my job at Danny Ganns, i would then turn down the on-call work i still got phone calls for.
Now that i am no longer full time at Danny Ganns, i have spent the last week calling all my previous employers to tell them i am still in need of the on-call work. It has been a hard adapting process, cause you never know when your next day of work is going to come. Thank god Amelia got put on a 5 day run at the MGM Grand and a 4 day sit down run of Thomas the Tank Engine.
So anyways, waiting for the on call work to start picking back up, has left me with alot of free time on my hands. It really gives you the amount of time to reconsider where it is you want your life to go and what is next for you. I have spent alot of afternoons in the Panera around the corner of our house (because the internet is free) surfing and searching for what might be next in my life.
I know it may seem odd for those i last toured with to understand that i am seriously considering touring again, but really it is the life i know. As much as i am enjoying being off the road, having moved to Vegas has just added alot of uncertainty and frustration into the picture. So alas, i sit and try and reevaluate my lifes worth in Panera.
Its hard tring to pick up on call work and be told that you are the most qualified or perhaps overqualified stagehand that Vegas has ever seen. And i am not one to be cocky, but it is so frustrating to be told that there just arn't any current positions open other than on-call positions.
At any rate, i try to get up every day and be positive. One day a door will open.
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Sorry to hear about the loss - I was just telling Kelly about your new job the other day! Something will come up for you though - the stimulus will go through, people will spend like crazy and the world will be right. Here's hoping at least.
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