Trying to get into a dream job is hard and disheartening. · 4:01pm Feb 27th, 2019
I'm a little...disheartened.
All my life, I have done nothing but obsess over films and fantasizing about becoming a film director. Of course, it comes secondary to my writing career, which I'm still massively focused on, but there is something so satisfying and magical about working on the set of a film or on the stage in a theatre.
I have performed before to hundreds of people and even put on a few promotional demos to crowds in a packed shopping centre, and, believe me, there is nothing that I would love more than to get in to the filming industry. The people you meet are something else entirely than what you encounter on an average day in the streets, I can tell you that much. It's so colourful with personality and creative energy that it draws you in, makes you a part of it, like some kind of mysterious unicorn hiding inside of a rainbow. (Yes, I'm aware that it sounds strange.)
Believe it or not, I actually met Harry Potter's Dad, Adrian Rawlingson, during my first ever live theatre performance. As a matter of fact, he works in my town at the moment in the local theatre just around the corner from my house. He's directing some of the shows and he's even writing the script for his own show. Cool dude is Adrian. A powerful and wise wizard, indeed.
Point is, if you've ever looked for jobs in the filming industry or anyplace in the creative media industry, you'll know off the bat that it's hard as all hell to get into. I've been looking for a job for a while, and the problem is that I don't live anywhere near any of the locations that offer what I'm looking for. It's gotten me feeling disappointed and depressed, honestly, and there isn't anything near me, unfortunately. Only in London and beyond, which is a good three-hundred-plus miles away from my home town.
Well...arg! Is there a better word for it other than 'Arg!'? Please, if there is, let me know.
Still, I have collected so many notes over the years and completed performing arts in college, which I left with some pretty impressive grades, if I do say so myself. I shouldn't really have a problem getting in, I have that much confidence on the matter, but, like I said, it's finding the right open window to climb through without getting slammed upon. Who knows, in a few years' time, I could very well be working as an assistant film director or a theatre director, and I wouldn't ever look back. I would actually be pretty happy if it worked out and I would not complain.
Well, I feel as I've rambled on enough. Dreams will be dreams, I suppose. It's up to us, the bearer of the dream, to make it a reality. I suggest that, if you're like me, you do all you can to get what you want, no matter what it takes to get there. It's called tenacity, dearest. Just go for it.
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With love, from England,
- FireRain💛
Maybe one day dreams will come true.