Anyway, I got a little off track. At Logan (Boston) Northwest Airlines is in the international terminal. I think it's in the basement of the international terminal, lol. After I checked in I had to go downstairs to go to my gate and through security. Then there was NOTHING down there besides the gates. There was one sandwich/coffee place and one magazine/snack place. Because my flight was around 1:30pm I planned to eat at the airport but it looked like my own option was the sandwich place. I looked at a map near the gate and it looked like there were more food options upstairs where the international gates are. So I went upstairs to see what there was. The place was EMPTY!
Someone once told me that all the international flights take off either in the morning or at night, so that could be why the place was empty around noon. There were a few more food options but I really wanted coffee so got some Starbucks and wandered. I did see this vending machine:
Would you like an ipod with your chips? After I wandered I sat and watched a few planes take off then went back and sat and watched what was on the TV in the terminal. I think it was Good Morning America, or Today, or some news special that they were showing on New Year's Day. They were interviewing a group of high school seniors about how the crappy economy has affected their college plans - most of them had worked all through school to get into a good college. Some changed their plans and were now looking at less expensive schools instead of their first choices, some didn't, one girl said she'd planned to go to an ivy league shoool her entire life and was still going to do that. But they all agreed on one thing - they had to get a little creative finding the money to go to college. I can't remember exactly what they said, but along the lines of looking for lesser-known scholarships and that sort of thing. I think one of them talked about writing a bunch of essays that could win her money, etc.
Something about that hit me and it was a really great point. We ALL need to get a little creative these days. Think outside of the box. Come up with new ideas. Look a little harder for opportunities we wouldn't have thought of before. I don't just mean with acting stuff either (I've kind of been doing that for awhile now). With everything whether that means career stuff, money, stuff at home, even hanging out with friends!
I used to have a neighbor who quit her day job a few years ago and started teaching some sort of classes. She may have eventually started her own business but I don't remember. She told me that the days of doing something more traditional (like get a job, get promoted, have a 401K, retire, etc.) were over. And this was 4 or 5 years ago. It's like she "got" it. Is there even a "traditional" path anymore - I mean people who did that sort of thing are now losing their jobs and are screwed. That is the ONE thing I am thankful for - I've never been one to follow a traditional path so I haven't really lost anything.
That one little thing I saw on that TV really changed the way I looked at stuff when I got back to LA. For me right now the two big things I really need to apply that to is my acting career and money. It's always money, isn't it, lol. I've started to think of some ways to create more money for myself without neglecting my acting. I have a few ideas. I've also accepted the fact that unless something great comes along, I'm not going to be able just up and quit my survival job - which I came very close to doing last year. The goal is to "transition" out of it. Find other ways to make money while I'm still working at this job, and hopefully one or two of those will eventually make me enough cash that I won't need the survival job anymore. I'm practically part time at my job now anyway - technically it's full time, but I consider it part-time, so even if I got another part time job that eventually became my main gig I'd be happy. Of course I'd like to be making money acting! And I still do want OUT of my current survival job!
So let's all go get creative!
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