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Getting Out of My Own Way |
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Written by the Editor
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I recently read an excerpt of Eminem's book in Entertainment Weekly, and one of the first things he writes is that he's always known he has a temper. “It’s like I had this voice and I had to be heard,” he writes. And I thought to myself, “That sounds like me.” Now, it’s not that I’m comparing myself to Eminem, or to any other rapper for that matter, but I understand about having a temper. It’s strange, because as I kid I was very shy. My aggression and screaming started, oh, somewhere around the time I started working in the entertainment business. Perhaps that’s a coincidence, but probably not. As an assistant at William Morris, I was the assistant who always yelled at the boss. He pushed me and I pushed right back. I would yell at him down the hall, down the staircase, determined to have the last word. I had this need to make sure that my boss knew that I was smarter than him and wouldn’t take any indication that he didn’t realize that.
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But Do I Want To Be An Editor? |
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Written by the Editor
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Writers need to write. I have a tendency to get bogged down in administrative tasks, and then I forget why I’m here. And that’s not true of just this website, it’s true of my “real life” as well. Somehow I manage to get myself into - Ok I just did it. I was right in the middle of a sentence and then remembered that I wanted to send an email to the site writers. Why? Why do I do this? My intention was to be a writer. Actually, that’s not true. I didn’t know what I was going to be, and actually fell into writing. I became one of those people that I hate. “I fell into this great job!” Yeah? Fuck you. I digress. (Again.)
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Achieving Strategic Underachievery |
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Written by Karen Woodward and MJ Daugherty
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Last week we introduced the concept of Strategic Underachievery, the art of not giving too much of ourselves to the corporate world. Some people who want to write/direct/design/whatever get jobs as waiters or baristas or dog walkers, and some get “day jobs” - jobs that we don’t care that much about, but pay the bills. While at these jobs, one must master the art of strategically underachieving: knowing how to avoid accidentally earning a promotion to a top executive position, yet still doing enough to keep from being fired and/or bored to the point of wanting to jump out the nearest window. It is harder than you might think.
In no particular order, we have put together some rules for Achieving Strategic Underachievery:
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