United States of what used to be America
Well, so I haven't really posted any blogs to this since I switched over from my Xanga. I stayed fairly busy working throughout baseball season and I even got approached by the main director at some point and got promoted up to running the graphics system on the weekends. I do feel really fortunate to be blessed to gain all of this production experience so far. Working the DNC and being a part of history was amazing! I did upload a picture during that week to my events blog. It was truly an amazing time and I should really make a post to there and maybe I will.
I continued working with FSN Rocky Mountain until the end of the Rockies season this year. After I worked what I was going to consider my last day, I sent an e-mail to the crewer informing her that since baseball was over, my work was done for this year. Last year, I stayed on longer because I worked High School football and I just didn't care too much to work on those productions this year. So, four days after I told the station that I was done, they went and laid-off a whole bunch of people. The station was recently bought by liberty media and I'm sure that from making visits to the studio before and seeing how people sit around, this was a necessary procedure. So, the last day that I worked with FSN Rocky Mountain was September 24th. I've been doing freelance work since I graduated almost two years ago now and was doing freelance work while I was still in school even. So, I've been able to stay afloat and I thought that I was doing really well and getting enough work to keep me afloat.
There are a total of three sports networks in the Denver area, probably the most out of any city in the US. The other network that I work with is Altitude. Altitude mainly airs Hockey and Basketball, so before these two seasons started up I went to a meeting with all of the "on-call employees" and I was anxious to get booked and started up with these people. My thoughts of getting booked were certainly wrong though. I worked a lot with this station last season and didn't have trouble getting work, but now they have since brought on some less experienced people and I think are refusing to book me? I have kept from contacting them and asking why I am not getting booked for anything because in this industry it's something that you just don't do, but it's been really discouraging. The crewers out there are the ones with all the power and if they don't want to book you, then you're just SOL. With the way that the economy has been unfolding and collapsing, it has had a negative effect on the Denver market; though we are one of the most stable ones to be in. Altitude sent out an excuse a few days ago explaining why there apparently isn't as much work as there has been in the past (I'm assuming other people are voicing their complaints) but the e-mail shouldn't really explain why I am not getting crewed. Anyways, I haven't worked now in two months and the $$$$ is going quickly away. I am now frantically trying to just find any type of work, but out of the 50 billion ads that I may respond to on craigslist or the different places that I walk into in the area, people just won't hire me. My close minded roomie did remind be though that it could be due to the fact that I'm not a Black Jewish Woman...because all online applications have their screening process/EOE Curriculum.
So I have had a lot of time to think. I didn't mind too much the first month having some time off, but now that it has gone into two months, I am starting to worry. I have found some cool opportunities in other locations outside of Denver that I have applied to that could keep me in Production, just not in my beloved state. If I could get something for the moment to hold me over 'til out sucky United States of what used to be America picks up and starts getting people jobs again. Since I've had time off, I've really gotten angry at the high profile people that run this joint. Why were our gas prices so high the whole last year and the second the country starts going to the shitter, the big oil companies then start cutting us a break? What's up with that? The biggest blatantly obvious one of where our money went was giving billions and billions to Iraq and whatever other countries and now if you try and walk into an armed forces recruiting office they won't even sign you up because of cut backs and such, in addition they claim that they don't really have officer programs(the funniest thing I've heard yet); because they only like to promote from within, so now all the kiddies coming out of school within the past year and resorting to a way of staying financially stable isn't even an option? Like I said, the country is just not good anymore. It's time to leave. Seriously though, I've certainly looked for jobs outside of the U.S. I did catch that traveling bug when I studied abroad now FOUR years ago (damn, sometimes I feel I'm growing up too fast). I could always still go and teach english in china I'm sure and then I can fight for them when the war starts in two years.
The reports came out today that we've had the highest unemployment rate now in the past 16 years and yep, I'm right there in that statistic. I had to file for unemployment myself two days ago, which now is nice because I can sit at my computer and do it all online. Hopefully I can get approved and get some type of assistance. I really don't know how it works, like if I haven't had like a REAL full-time job in umm...well? Idk how long? I would Like a full-time job, but I can only work in this field the longest people keep me around. I interviewed for a job with Comcast back in August to do some Master Control with them, which they could easily see from my resume that I have no experience what so ever doing that, but as I'm sitting there with four people across the table interviewing me (which I HATE these interviews and always suck at them) the one guy looks at me and seriously has the nerve to say that "You don't really stay at one job too long" Seriously dude? Are you THAT stupid? Ha! I think what I said is that it's because I've been doing all freelance, but since I didn't get the job anyways, I should've leaped across the table and smacked him. Then say, well, if you high and train me to do this job then I will have stayed somewhere long. Oh well, that's just another interview that I had to go through that I didn't get and just have to continue to keep my head up and persevere through these very, very tough times.
I wish that I had a closer knit group that I regularly hung out with from church, but I don't. The group at the church which I go to has a group which everyone titles "the singles group" but I don't really think that it can be called that when there's a lack of the opposite sex in the group. It should just be called the guys group. Whatever. My church started up this thing on Sunday nights now and it's called, "Journey." I do really enjoy it. It's basically like a service with singing and then someone gets up and gives a testimony of a big time in their life that they've had to overcome some struggle and explain where they are at now in their lives. It's really something and it gives me to learn a little more about the people. Then Mike gets up and does a short devo and then we get to eat, clearly the icing on the cake! I would like to take it upon myself to do more with the group, but I am in the mode that if I got a last minute call for work somewhere, I would have to drop and cancel plans to go work. Money makes the world go round and it sucks. I think that by having my weird schedule, that has made it difficult so far. If I could just get something to where I was steady working and could work around my schedule, then life would be glorious again.
I'm someone who I usually like to stay busy with stuff and I don't always like having too much time to myself. Sometimes I fear that by not doing stuff during the day, my interaction with people slips and I certainly can't say that my interaction with just my roommate makes up for it. Ha. Don't get my wrong, I do like the kid, but if you know him you can relate. With the time off I should be taking it upon myself to study more and learn more things to do, but I don't. Why don't I get the eagerness to quit typing on the computer and pick up my bible or some religious book in my bookshelf and go discover something that I didn't know? Why don't I have that motivation? Have I gotten into a bad habit of not doing that? It's weird, I just don't get it. If I don't do that though when I have this time off, then when my life picks up again am I going to say to the person that asks me a question that I should've been learning about in free time. What am I going to say? I don't know? What if this person is genuinely curious and really wants to know truth? I think that it's something that could come back to bite me. There's one line in a poem I posted because and it says It's the uses time wisely grade that I fear the most. This is true. I think that those could come back at us, but who knows.
I wrote this the other night, but I wrote it on paper and didn't actually get to posting it. If you're curious to reading it, I'm going to post it on my religious views blog.
I continued working with FSN Rocky Mountain until the end of the Rockies season this year. After I worked what I was going to consider my last day, I sent an e-mail to the crewer informing her that since baseball was over, my work was done for this year. Last year, I stayed on longer because I worked High School football and I just didn't care too much to work on those productions this year. So, four days after I told the station that I was done, they went and laid-off a whole bunch of people. The station was recently bought by liberty media and I'm sure that from making visits to the studio before and seeing how people sit around, this was a necessary procedure. So, the last day that I worked with FSN Rocky Mountain was September 24th. I've been doing freelance work since I graduated almost two years ago now and was doing freelance work while I was still in school even. So, I've been able to stay afloat and I thought that I was doing really well and getting enough work to keep me afloat.
There are a total of three sports networks in the Denver area, probably the most out of any city in the US. The other network that I work with is Altitude. Altitude mainly airs Hockey and Basketball, so before these two seasons started up I went to a meeting with all of the "on-call employees" and I was anxious to get booked and started up with these people. My thoughts of getting booked were certainly wrong though. I worked a lot with this station last season and didn't have trouble getting work, but now they have since brought on some less experienced people and I think are refusing to book me? I have kept from contacting them and asking why I am not getting booked for anything because in this industry it's something that you just don't do, but it's been really discouraging. The crewers out there are the ones with all the power and if they don't want to book you, then you're just SOL. With the way that the economy has been unfolding and collapsing, it has had a negative effect on the Denver market; though we are one of the most stable ones to be in. Altitude sent out an excuse a few days ago explaining why there apparently isn't as much work as there has been in the past (I'm assuming other people are voicing their complaints) but the e-mail shouldn't really explain why I am not getting crewed. Anyways, I haven't worked now in two months and the $$$$ is going quickly away. I am now frantically trying to just find any type of work, but out of the 50 billion ads that I may respond to on craigslist or the different places that I walk into in the area, people just won't hire me. My close minded roomie did remind be though that it could be due to the fact that I'm not a Black Jewish Woman...because all online applications have their screening process/EOE Curriculum.
So I have had a lot of time to think. I didn't mind too much the first month having some time off, but now that it has gone into two months, I am starting to worry. I have found some cool opportunities in other locations outside of Denver that I have applied to that could keep me in Production, just not in my beloved state. If I could get something for the moment to hold me over 'til out sucky United States of what used to be America picks up and starts getting people jobs again. Since I've had time off, I've really gotten angry at the high profile people that run this joint. Why were our gas prices so high the whole last year and the second the country starts going to the shitter, the big oil companies then start cutting us a break? What's up with that? The biggest blatantly obvious one of where our money went was giving billions and billions to Iraq and whatever other countries and now if you try and walk into an armed forces recruiting office they won't even sign you up because of cut backs and such, in addition they claim that they don't really have officer programs(the funniest thing I've heard yet); because they only like to promote from within, so now all the kiddies coming out of school within the past year and resorting to a way of staying financially stable isn't even an option? Like I said, the country is just not good anymore. It's time to leave. Seriously though, I've certainly looked for jobs outside of the U.S. I did catch that traveling bug when I studied abroad now FOUR years ago (damn, sometimes I feel I'm growing up too fast). I could always still go and teach english in china I'm sure and then I can fight for them when the war starts in two years.
The reports came out today that we've had the highest unemployment rate now in the past 16 years and yep, I'm right there in that statistic. I had to file for unemployment myself two days ago, which now is nice because I can sit at my computer and do it all online. Hopefully I can get approved and get some type of assistance. I really don't know how it works, like if I haven't had like a REAL full-time job in umm...well? Idk how long? I would Like a full-time job, but I can only work in this field the longest people keep me around. I interviewed for a job with Comcast back in August to do some Master Control with them, which they could easily see from my resume that I have no experience what so ever doing that, but as I'm sitting there with four people across the table interviewing me (which I HATE these interviews and always suck at them) the one guy looks at me and seriously has the nerve to say that "You don't really stay at one job too long" Seriously dude? Are you THAT stupid? Ha! I think what I said is that it's because I've been doing all freelance, but since I didn't get the job anyways, I should've leaped across the table and smacked him. Then say, well, if you high and train me to do this job then I will have stayed somewhere long. Oh well, that's just another interview that I had to go through that I didn't get and just have to continue to keep my head up and persevere through these very, very tough times.
I wish that I had a closer knit group that I regularly hung out with from church, but I don't. The group at the church which I go to has a group which everyone titles "the singles group" but I don't really think that it can be called that when there's a lack of the opposite sex in the group. It should just be called the guys group. Whatever. My church started up this thing on Sunday nights now and it's called, "Journey." I do really enjoy it. It's basically like a service with singing and then someone gets up and gives a testimony of a big time in their life that they've had to overcome some struggle and explain where they are at now in their lives. It's really something and it gives me to learn a little more about the people. Then Mike gets up and does a short devo and then we get to eat, clearly the icing on the cake! I would like to take it upon myself to do more with the group, but I am in the mode that if I got a last minute call for work somewhere, I would have to drop and cancel plans to go work. Money makes the world go round and it sucks. I think that by having my weird schedule, that has made it difficult so far. If I could just get something to where I was steady working and could work around my schedule, then life would be glorious again.
I'm someone who I usually like to stay busy with stuff and I don't always like having too much time to myself. Sometimes I fear that by not doing stuff during the day, my interaction with people slips and I certainly can't say that my interaction with just my roommate makes up for it. Ha. Don't get my wrong, I do like the kid, but if you know him you can relate. With the time off I should be taking it upon myself to study more and learn more things to do, but I don't. Why don't I get the eagerness to quit typing on the computer and pick up my bible or some religious book in my bookshelf and go discover something that I didn't know? Why don't I have that motivation? Have I gotten into a bad habit of not doing that? It's weird, I just don't get it. If I don't do that though when I have this time off, then when my life picks up again am I going to say to the person that asks me a question that I should've been learning about in free time. What am I going to say? I don't know? What if this person is genuinely curious and really wants to know truth? I think that it's something that could come back to bite me. There's one line in a poem I posted because and it says It's the uses time wisely grade that I fear the most. This is true. I think that those could come back at us, but who knows.
I wrote this the other night, but I wrote it on paper and didn't actually get to posting it. If you're curious to reading it, I'm going to post it on my religious views blog.
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