Alternatives
Solution
CHOOSE NOT TO BE
among the least paid
in their industry.
ARE your collegues getting extension after extension... on high profile leading edge projects... that give them access to opportunity... that keeps increasing the value of their resume... WHILE your contracts get shorter and shorter... and the holes in your resume just seem to get bigger and bigger and increasingly difficult to fill?
"I showed up every Monday night from 6-9, much the way you showed up for a class," she told the graduates. "And it was very hard. It was the worst in the class, a fact clear to me and to everyone else. Yet I stayed and kept on trying. I knew there was learning in the trying, in sticking with what didn't come easily. I never actually cracked the code or became a potter. Yet at the end, I have these small little pieces of ‘pottery' in my house and the odd thing is, I display them...and they make me smile when I walk in. They remind me to take myself seriously, but not too seriously, to stretch even in the face of initial resistance, mine or others, to find pleasure in small wins."
She referred to the image on a large screen on the BAM stage.