Hey guys! What are you doing today? My goal for you is to do something productive toward whatever it is in life you are trying to do. Since this is Backstage and my column is called “The Working Actor,” I’m going to guess you’re an actor. Or maybe you’re a civilian who saw the cover and picked this up because you’re into sailors.
We talk a lot about how this industry doesn’t really provide us with much control. To be honest, not many careers do. We don’t pay attention to other careers because we are actors, and actors have it worse than anyone else in the entire world. Furthermore, the entire world wants to be us. Why do you think social media is such a big deal? Everybody wants to be “liked,” and now they have a platform to acquire the same magnetic rush of endorphins actors have been pining after for thousands of years. You can be an investment banker and have 600,000 people following your Instagram account about your dog. Actually, how the eff is that fair when the majority of us have dream-crippling debt and still can’t seem to break 300 followers? I digress.
What exactly do we have control over? Our activity. Activity breeds activity. It’s kind of
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