I don't doubt you made the right decision. The "right" decision is different for all of us - that's perhaps the point. Do we have kids or do we not? How old are we? How well established are we? Are we the primary financial breadwinners in our families or not? What health or income challenges might our families face in the near future?
There's no one way to be an editor in this country. All of us have to advocate for the situation that's best for us, given where we live and what we're willing to do.
Best,
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: electropura212 <electropura212@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 1:14 pm
Subject: 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:
> **
>
>
> 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)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Search the official Complete Avid-L archives at:
> http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------------------
Search the official Complete Avid-L archives at: http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
Yahoo! Groups Links
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
No comments:
Post a Comment