Re: [Avid-L2] Editor Wellness Tips

Cost me about 10 grand to be there the first month of my daughters life
earlier this year. All in all, I think I made the right decision.



On Sunday, September 30, 2012, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

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>
>
> Indeed, freelancing makes me crazy. I don't think back when I got into TV
> decades ago I envisioned being a graying, middle-aged person without a real
> job. And you put it well - "out of work for the rest of your life." I have
> no real guarantee that anyone will call me again, ever, and each time the
> work stops I wonder if I'm off the edge for good this time. But I guess
> nowadays no one has any guarantees. Places go out of business or contract,
> and staff folks lose their jobs all the time.
>
> I've given up committing to vacations of any length. A few years ago I
> honored a promise to family member to attend a camping trip birthday
> celebration in Tahoe. I was just tired of putting the people I love second
> all the time. As a result, I lost a bunch of work, and it ended up costing
> me $10,000 to sleep on the Sierra dirt for four days; that was the end of
> that particular social experiment. Clearly, the people I love must be
> placed second. But it's been worse for others I know. One fellow's mother
> was very sick, but he felt compelled to accept a big and lucrative gig. It
> had been a bad year, and he really needed the dough. He had a plane ticket
> to fly back east and see her, but she died before he could get to her.
>
> Happy Sunday.
>
> David, (the writer of the original post) are you now considering a career
> in plumbing instead?
>
> Shirley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'tcurren%40aol.com');>>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>>
> Sent: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 6:47 am
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor Wellness Tips
>
> It's funny how many staff editors idolize the freelance life. But unless
> you
> have the right make-up for it, it's not a lot of fun. Staff editors think
> it
> must be great because you get those cool "breaks" between gigs. In
> reality, each
> time you finish a gig, you are out of work for the rest of your life. So
> there
> is a small panic that can set in and then the mad scramble to find more
> work.
> It's not a vacation.
>
> And speaking of vacations… want to guarantee some really good work will
> come
> along? Plan a vacation, pay for the whole thing, and then that cherry gig
> will
> certainly coma along for that exact time period. It's almost like
> clockwork. :-/
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, "john@..." <john@...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a freelancer, so a vacation is out of the equation. My last was my
> honeymoon in '99... When I was a staff editor. Dodo mention that I'm
> typing
> this on my iPhone as I head to the city for a fun filled Sunday of editing?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sep 30, 2012, at 2:13 AM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@> wrote:
> > >
> > > <<John, exactly. I feel the same way. I don't know how those other
> editors
> do it, the ones that go to Sicily, Switzerland, Africa, South America, and
> places like that. But they do exist, those vacation-taking editors.>>
> > >
> > > They either have staff jobs (in very short supply) or they don't care
> about
> work and figure they can always pick up again when they come back (no
> mortgage
> or kids)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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