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So Samoit is bitching me out, by phone and comment, to start posting again. He called me up at work today, and I had to cut him off 'cause I had to go pitch a door, but he seemed a little concerned about ye olde job, and I figure he's probably not the only one, so I thought I'd go ahead and talk about it a little more in this here space and kill two birds with one stone. First things first: Metz is still planning on going to film school. As much fun as I'm having with this job, I don't want to do this all my life. Nobody wants to be a career guy knocking doors and doing demos, and the whole "earn your own franchise" career path isn't that appealing to me. So I don't expect to be doing this more than a year or two. On the other hand, this is the best job I've ever had. It's fun, the people are cool, it's giving me a lot more confidence on dealing with people (I knock on an absolute stranger's door, talk my way into their house, and then have them make a $1500 decision in an hour and a half.); and did I mention it pays a WHOLE lot better than any other job I've ever worked?  Money's been tight for a while; I've got credit card debt I need to deal with, and I'm sick of living paycheck to paycheck and scrambling to meet my bills. I'm getting better at this job every day, making more money every week, and I fully expect to have my debts taken care of and be able to start saving money by February. And this helps for film school too - for one thing, school itself it going to cost money, and it's not like movies are going to be a lucrative and fast way to pay off film school debts. For the other thing, I need a portfolio to get in, and while borrowing Priz's camera has been helpful, his comp is too messed up to edit on, so I need to get editing software for myself, as well as a camera of my own, various attachments and equipment, etc, etc. All this stuff costs money. Even no-budget shorts for your portfolio cost more money than you'd think. With a philosophy degree, this is one of the only viable options for me to make the kind of money I need for that. And I'm having fun doing it. We blew a tire out on the van today, my manager threw up all over the cab and my pants, and I still came home and could honestly say I had a pretty good day today.

It took me a couple of weeks to get over the idea that I was too cool, too educated, and basically too good to be selling vacuums door to door. I'll be honest with you, that was stupid of me. I love what I do, and it's doing exactly what I need it to do for me. The only problem right now is that I'm spending a lot of time at work. I work a lot of hours at this job, and it occupies the majority of my mental space, both inside work and out. But, on the other hand, before I got this job, computer games were occupying the majority of my time and mental space, so this is a step in the right direction. I'm working on finding time for creative stuff as well, but it's on the back burner right now, to be honest, and it's going to take me a while. I will start posting again regularly, and I'll try to avoid mentioning work in this space, both for pragmatic purposes and because I know you guys don't want to hear about it. But I wanted to get this out here, and so I have. Have a good one, guys.