Great Gods and Goddesses... disappear for a day and look what happens! *laughs*
Sorry Zoriah, it's exam time... and my workload has become... interestingly evil...
Sometimes I wonder if students check out their brains at end of year exam time! *laughs* Poor dears, I've never seen people so stressed.
Zoriah...
You're still acting! That is a feat of patience I did not possess.
I never knew that about New Zealand. In my experience here I was never bracketed in an age group!
I have to say as immaturely as I can... THAT SUCKS!
I know what you mean about that assessment of life phase. At 25 I went and did a series of courses in training and youth work, and moonlighted as a youth counsellor for a while. But now that the acting bug is biting me again, I'm going to use some connections to get back into theatre. Maybe you could consider that, I remember you mentioning you had done some.
I find age matters little on a stage where the makeup is so heavy no one can tell anyway... it doesn't pay as much as TV or film, but the creativity and energy I love.
I've also tried my hand at directing, that is worthwhile if you have the stamina! Go do a course and see how it turns out! The power is intoxicating! *laughs*
Then of course... teach. Go back to school, you're never to young, and get a degree in Education. If you have enough experience as an actor you won't need the degree. I don't have an Education degree, but I have one degree in Media and Performance art, and a diploma in Acting and Directing. That with my actual experience had a University create a course for me to teach. Depending on funding I may not have this job next year, but the experience has been invaluable and it is impressive on a CV! *laughs*
I just took a chance on an ad in a paper while unemployed. They were asking for qualified people to bring something new to their curriculum because of drop out rates.
Thank you for you support while I was soapboxing away. I know people must be sick of female actors whining about age making a difference, but until you have been there, you don't know what you're talking about.
I will drop you a line, thank you so much for giving me your e-mail address. Expect a wildly nuerotic letter sometime this week!
Bakana...
I know next to nothing about Hurricanes, so thank you VERY MUCH for that information. They interest me as much as they scare the pants off me! In Australia we get the odd little to semi-large tornado, but only in Winter. One of our cities here in Victoria, called Geelong, had one only a couple of months ago, it just dropped out of the sky, no warning, then was gone in minutes after swathing a path of destruction.
I also didn't know that about computer programmers. That actually disgusts me. I see so many young hopefuls coming back to University to do a degree in computer science near the ages you mentioned, thinking it will secure them a well paying job for the rest of their lives.
Some days I just want to throw my hands in the air and scream! What are we coming to as a society, undercutting and undervaluing people because of age!?
Oopps... *tucks soapbox back under her skirt*
Raia...
You are welcome! I do carry on a bit don't I! In my defence, this is my downtime. In the very early hours of the morning I get on the computer and really LOVE chatting with people who stimulate me, share my interests in science fiction and media, and like to have a joke. I'm also relieved to interact with people younger than me as something other than a teacher.
I am eternally encouraged at the intelligence I see on this board. All of you whipper snappers are amazing!
Minotaur is great! I lose myself for hours in the specialty shops over here. I'm forever dragging someone into them, and have almost successfully converted every friend I have to sci-fi. I'm a somewhat persuasive... or is that bullying? personality!
Angel Summers...
Great Idea. I will be heading over to check out your post!
Thank you for that.
And sure, I'd love to do the pen pal thing... it's been 15 years but why not, as long as you can put up with an over worked, underpayed ex-bimbo with a degree or two who is mildly nuerotic and very motherly! *laughs*
Channe...
Goddess, young lady, you sound like a little genius in the making! I'd love to pick your brains and go to a movie sometimes and critique it afterward. Although I enjoyed The Phantom Menace, I had to see it four times to like it because the first three I pulled it apart from every persepective I knew.
How young are you, if you don't mind disclosing?
I can't imagine, but you do say you're near your peak!
I look to Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streepe, Helen Mirran, and Dame Judy when I start to get too low on maybe not having a career as an actor again. I honestly think, in the US at least and the UK, that your career is only as short as you allow it to be. Look at Sigourney Weaver! She came into the limelight in her thirties with ALIEN. In smaller countries like Australia and New Zealand, you get relegated to a soap opera. We make some truly revolutionary films, but they are often very youth focused.
If you have half as much talent as you seem too, and with your fingers in as many pies as they are, making a name for yourself shouldn't be dreadfully hard! Once you have a name, longevity is up to you.
I had to whince when I read your psuedo phonestic representation of an Aussie accent from your commercials. I dread to see how we are portrayed. Anyone remember CONTACT, and that dreadful American actor trying to pull off an Aussie accent? *shudders* If you watch FARSCAPE you'll hear real Australians.
And Fosters *gag* Give me wine any day! RED! Only red!!
I am completely confused as to why you would envy me. I started my career at 19, ended it eight years later. But to be honest, I am so much more fulfilled now teaching. Though I give ageing a hard time, I have never felt better about myself, or more happy in my life since I hit thirty. My mother kept trying to convince me that if I thought my twenties were great, I was going to have a ball with my thirties. She's right! I've just gone and bought myself a motorbike! When you cross that gap of mentally not accepting, to emotionally embracing, you are surprised by how you suddenly take life and go with it.
The best thing about maturing is you realise you're not going to live forever, so you better do the most you can with your life, and career suddenly becomes less important than being fulfilled in other ways.
Now all I need is a good man...
Dean?
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Sheridan: "It's... damn inconvienient!"
Delenn: "The truth often is."
