How To Juggle A Day Job With Your Acting Career
This week’s #GuruTips is all about a problem that literally every actor will face sometime in their career: how to handle a day job.
We all would love to book a series that gets sold into syndication and live off residuals forever, but until that happens, the rent still needs to get paid. You should never be ashamed of having to work a day job, but there are some things you should look for in the right day job. Today I share four things to think about when looking for the job to pay the bills.
One of the biggest things I stress today is that you should be honest with your coworkers and employers. One of my good friends was working a day job and had two major series auditions the same day, right when he was scheduled to work. Unfortunately, his boss had no idea he was an actor. My friend was totally stressed because he lied to his boss about where he was (which led to two not-so-great auditions), and when he got back to work, he was in a whole lot of trouble. Always be upfront and honest; it’s worth it.
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Until we all book a series,
February 17, 2016 @ 12:52 am
Love this! I’ll pass this on to my actor clients too!
February 21, 2016 @ 2:49 am
Wonderful, Courtney! Thanks for watching and sharing!
February 22, 2016 @ 12:10 am
Ajarae!
Thank you for the dose of wisdom. I love that you mentioned energy drain. I’ve been on a hiatus from auditioning because of that. I always wondered was it me or the lack of sleep kicking my behind. lol. Working a graveyard shift and trying to make auditions was not working. Great tips!
March 10, 2016 @ 4:46 am
Energy drain is REAL! It’s not you. lol I hope you can get back to actively auditioning soon… if that’s what you want! 🙂