Taking Advantage of Small Job Opportunities
It took me awhile to learn to take advantage of all the small survivor jobs that pop up along the way. I like to go home and visit my family in California at least once per year. It never occurred to me that while I am on vacation, I could go back to my old ballet studio to teach and/ choreograph. I actually felt very silly for not realizing the great and fun money-making opportunity until a few years ago. Reconnecting with the ballet director has been nothing but a major blessing for me. Not only do I get to continue gaining an income, I get to create. I get to do a job I enjoy and not feel trapped in a long-term commitment to a dance studio. That’s a time commitment I can’t make. Short term and temporary - I will always speak that language when it comes to my survivor work. In general, I would like to create more small job opportunities that have some sort of artistic backbone so they can eventually stream together into a years worth of regular work if I was never in a show the entire year. I really do better in my soul if everything in my life is artistic in some sort of way.
I love this song from Enchanted. It is cheesy as ever and I absolutely love it - it’s like Cinderella who sings as she gets her work done. I would like a job that gets me to internally sing as I do it. Is that too much to ask? I may be wrong, but I think these small, short term gigs may be the solution to being happy in my daily life.
September 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I love this scene! We ended up rewinding it and watching it over the first time we saw it. We love this movie! Very Disney!
Hugs,
Sara