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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@...> wrote:
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> Nicely said.
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> Sounds like the editing life to me. Balance is elusive, and the choices and their consequences change constantly.
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> Best,
> Shirley
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T Hopkins <hoplist@...>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 8:41 am
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Editor Wellness Tips
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>
> Sometimes I regret making choices that have kept me poorer and less "successful"
> than others around me.
>
> Sometimes I regret making choices that have allowed my standard of living to
> rise and become a trap.
>
> I freelanced for the first 6 years of my career. I worked "half-time." I
> panicked every time I was "between" jobs, but the jobs came frequently enough to
> survive and I chose to spent the rest of the time with my new family rather than
> looking for more work. We also made the choice that my wife would stay a full
> time mother, so we remained single income.
>
> Should I have chosen differently?
>
> Sometimes I sit. Sometimes I stand. Sometimes I do Yoga. Sometimes I work too
> hard. Sometimes I don't.
>
> Cheers,
> tod
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> On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:14 PM, electropura212 wrote:
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> > 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@... <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 vacationsâˆ` 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:
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> >>> 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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