Baby steps

When you're so incredibly eager for life to TAKE OFF - it's hard to take baby steps - but those baby steps are very important towards building a solid foundation.  I feel like this past month has been all about baby steps.  I took the baby steps towards getting my tour guide license - (I hope to take the test Friday and I have my Peter Stuyvesant Tour "audition" on Tuesday.)  I took baby steps by training to be an equity monitor - which pays a "stipend" and helps me meet a lot of people and learn from them.  I took a managing your cash flow class that will - in theory - help me manage income once I actually GET income.  My blog was discovered by a major Broadway website (Not this blog - the other "professional one) - and they will be running a special on it and me in "a few weeks."  Hopefully once Amore is over I can start "Pay what you can" classes to go along with the blog.  I've looked into how to start my won (VERY low key) pet sitting business - just so if a friends knows a friend who needs an over night dog sitter - they can go to my website and see my rates - which I plan on making competitive!  (Man - I feel like I've been MASSIVELY jipped every time I dog sat the demon dogs!  Most pet sitting businesses charge $40 a NIGHT PER DOG!!!!!!!!  I got paid something like $100 for two weeks!  I figure I can get insured and set real prices and hopefully every now and then pick up an extra $40 for taking care of someone's roo.  I've secured a LITTLE funding for the cabaret Loralee and I want to do and have put together bits and pieces of a potential "Script" for it.  I've learned A LOT about how treat MYSELF like a business!  (business cards, thank you/follow up cards, newsletters, how to audition, how to deal with callbacks, how to deal with audition sides, etc...)  I've also learned that I CAN'T accept a non-paying/non-union that I can't be proud inviting industry to  - even if it IS for my BELOVED OPERA with a dozen of a my besets friends.  It's too time consuming and my time needs to be spend on my REAL CAREER(s).  

So this month has been slightly frustrating as I'm ready for everything to be OFF THE GROUND - but I think some very important steps were taken towards GETTING them off the found next month - and smooth sailing for July building up a solid "parallel career base" until my unemployment runs out in August.  Then it's sink or swim and hopefully I'll be swimming!