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twilightown · 20 days

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No matter the current situation versus potential situation, there are going to be parts of a move that suck and are stressful. Especially so if it involves moving states. But just because Some parts are going to inevitably suck doesn't mean all of it is doomed to. I'm not sure where your current residence is, but one good thing about moving somewhere that has regular heatwaves is that there are more resources available when it comes to dealing with them. IK that sounds kinda silly but I feel like it's the truth, ESP when it comes to moving somewhere that gets a lot of tourists. I don't want to be an old man "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" but as a native Floridian I can't help but stress that it's the truth xD.

Leaving a support system does sound very scary, but if it is around Orlando/Lake Buena Vista that you want to move to, at least it should be within reasonable distance of an airport when it comes to calling for help or needing to fly out for some reason. Traffic is going to suck, but like the heat it's something you will get used to. This is a move people make a lot, and while that doesn't make it any easier, I hope it helps it feel like it's not so dumb and impossible. Another thing I want to include in this word wall is this: You're smart and an adult and I'm sure you don't need to be told that you're probably not going to get the exact position you want right away. It might be something you have to work up towards or have just a 'getting by' job until you do get your foot in the door or on the path to the door you wanna go through. It's gonna be hard and there are gonna be days in your happy place that aren't as happy and there are probably times you're gonna feel like it sucks. But sucky days aren't going to completely eliminate the possibility of good days. I believe in you and have all of my fingers and toes crossed that this is something that works out in your favor with as few hiccups as possible. The chances of there being no hiccups at all is really slim, but, I am still hoping and praying that things swing in your favor as much as they can.

I needed to hear all this today, thank u 🥰

You’re right, I hadn’t thought of the various resources for heat they’ve got. My previous college program, they were able to move me to nights or early mornings which was nice! I really enjoyed working those. Opening was a joy tbh. Closing was a joy as well.

That is the area - like a 20 mile range from WDW lol. The traffic is something I’m not as worried about because I did it in my programs and lawd my hometown has it worse.

I’m coming from a gentrified medium city on the Eastern seaboard that’s gotten too many incoming tourists for our infrastructure to handle. It’s bumper to bumper from 4:30 to 6 at cross sections because there’s only one or two major routes. Maddening.

You’re right about the airport. My town flies direct to MCO so that’ll be easy. (Just gotta solve the pets for trips back and forth…)

Absolutely, I’m expecting to have to network and work my way up. I’m going to apply for everything when the time is right and see what sticks. My husband will be able to find a job, EZPZ. I’ve got a nice resume and I’m planning to really make my LinkedIn page nice? Try to network on Disney’s alumni website too. See if I can find any work that’s $20+ with them. 🤷🏼‍♀️ If not, I’ll go executive assistant route or try the other theme park or teach. (In Florida? It’s lowest on my list.) Disney has multiple roles for me to use my education degree. Just, like you said, got to get my foot in the door

Thank u kind stranger. This is a large move. And it’s not impossible… But it is life changing. It’s not just me involved. Thinking about how much I love my current job (at the moment) is making me hesitate too. Idk, next years’s students may have me packing my bags.

Our plan is to move at the new year. Professional internships will have started if I need to go that route. I’ll have stayed a semester at my school, we’ll have Christmas goodbyes and enough money saved to pay everything we need to for the move. Just feels right.

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cartoonfangirl1218 · 8 months

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Hey, remember when I had a whiny self pity party a few months ago about my grad school.

It’s back.

You see, I had thought I reached a calm state of acceptance about it. Yes, it wasn’t what I wanted but it was still a good school. Its well known for writing for a reason, it will be fine.

Then orientation happened. And nothing really bad came from it, the teachers all seemed nice and enthusiastic but I just left feeling worse I guess somehow.

The writing workshops seem fine but just the other classes about publishing, it just feels like I’m playing pretend I guess. It’s more essays and more group projects that are supposed to prepare for the actual job and that’s the whole point of education I know.

But god, the other program had you actually tour publishing houses. And there was a whole semester project where you got to work personally one on one with an editor to develop your novel and another semester with an agent to try to sell it to the publishing houses.

You got to work, I want to work so badly instead of having these vague classes where homework is the stand-in for an actual chance inside the publishing world.

And don’t even get me started on the internships. How this school is all about networking and we’ll get you connections and whenever I ask about job, the answer is always the goddam same. It’s always go to the career center.

I did go to the career center in college and all the career center does is help you with your resume. Which is fine but I would like to actually add a job to my goddam resume instead of polishing up the nothing I already have. Because I know the problem is I having nothing on my resume because no one will fucking hire me since I have no experience like the worst circular dumpster fire.

And no one is going to recommend me because I have to be an adult and do it myself, take initiative. I know that but god, everyone says you have to have connections or know someone so why can’t the teacher help me get in something. And I don’t mean the school literary magazine. I read that and I understood nothing of that pretentious poetry nonsense. Nothing!

But maybe I’m wrong, supposedly the alumni in the career center message boards always reply back. Maybe they’ll help. Or maybe it will be like the last time when I talked to three editors from Disney-Hyperion and Simon and Schuster (how’s that for initiative)That they’ll keep me in mind but you just to have keep working at it and maybe find local journals. And I’ll smile and say thanks, and they’ll smile and say they’ll remember but let’s face it, they probably won’t.

And those local journals don’t even have the decency to reply with an automated rejection email because apparently that’s not a thing anymore. They just don’t answer at all. And I’m too polite to send a snarky email saying maybe they’ll hire me to rejection emails for them cuz they need it. Not that they’d reply to that anyone.

And the ones that do answer and give me an interview then they cancel the interview because they don’t need anymore hires. Do they not fucking communicate?!?! How do they not know that the position isn’t filled when they offer someone an interview? Why do they have the internship sign still up! And this has happened to me three times. Three, what the hell.

And the others, cuz only one had the decency to reject me outright told me they needed more personality. Omg this is internship, I’m probably just getting you coffee and checking emails. Do you really need my personality? My personality is whatever you want me to be because I just want to get hired. I mean I guess I could talk about how I like books but I really think you should have guessed that from the fact that I’m applying for your journal and that whole cover letter where I talk about my book blig, my library experience, and all that. But nooo that’s just my accomplishments, they want personality.

Well my personality is in the middle of a meltdown between crying ion the toilet and punching someone in the face repeatedly. Thank you very very much!

And my regular job search isn’t going much better with the aforementioned no rejection email thing. Or just not replying to emails. Or they want a high school student. Or it only goes to the Princeton Uni ones because they’re so special. Which will be ironic since the only job that I’m going to get is at the University store. Yes, maybe it’s a shitty temporary job, but I guess that’s a rite of passage and I want money.

Yet it’s so so depressing at the same time because I know what my friends are doing. Ones in foreign exchange in Uruguay at a clinic. Ones working at a hospital. Ones in law school. They get to work, they get to be in the fields while I’m stuck in this online program in theoretical publishing land instead of the real thing.

And I know I shouldn’t compare but it’s hard and then I have to talk to them and literally have nothing to say when they ask what’s new. Nothing is new. It’s read a little and depend on the day, do laundry or go food shopping. Or when I get the store job, I can add fold t shirts, stack t shirts, ring up t shirts, find my atrophied brain among the t shirts. Basically the same thing I’ve done all summer.

Because how can I build a social life in an asynchronous program. Seriously? So many people yet the most superficial interactions. It’s not like real life and it’s not like fandom life where you already have a jumping off point and I must admit I suck at group situations. I need one on one but again, it’s all async so ffuuuuck. And don’t get me on local adult classes. They use to be $75, now they’re $210 for Beginner’s French, what sort of capitalist greed nonsense is this

And let’s not even get to my love life, that will go down a depressing spiral just the same. And I have tried and maybe it’s the guys I’ve texted with but they suck at texting. I’m always initiating and it’s always one word in return and I cannot be the one initiating, I just feel I’m bothering you. And since I’ve stopped, it’s been months with nothing so clearly that’s a dead end too.

I mean, people always go on in the internet age it’s so easy to communicate and noooo it’s not true! It’s not true! It’s not true!

The only thing I’m excited about is doing a paralegal degree online. I’m not even interested in law! But at least it will feel like an accomplishment compared to this program.

Because maybe I’m not cut out for this. Maybe I’m not as good of a writer as I think I am. And I’m trying to be realistic that maybe I can be an editor but apparently getting into it is even harder than being a writer. Apparently just getting in that field is just hard and it sucks. And I could be a librarian but that involves learning math, it’s been three years since I did math, I can’t get back into, I can’t. The GRE has spoken.

So I’ll be a paralegal and I just die a little inside. And my friends are all like why are you giving up on my dream and come on, you think I want to?

I don’t! I know I would be good at it. I read 100 pages per hour, I’ve done interviews with authors, I wrote 100 posts for my book blog in 18 days and once did a 100 day streak of one post a day. Basically, initiative and I’m disciplined and bit obsessive which I would think they want. I’ve edited others work, I think I write pretty good emotional scenes with angst and humor, I’ve written in the voice of other authors, I’ve planned detail book series which is exactly in the job skills of a story editor. I would kill in this!

Maybe, I mean I don’t even know. Maybe it is harder than I think and I should try for something else but I don’t know because I’m not in that world, just theoretical land of school papers and essays, wasting my time when I could have learned to accept that dreams die long long ago.

And yes, this is all very self pitying when I could transfer but what’s the point? What’s the point of sticking it out for a year and transferring. I should just suck it up and do the two years I’m paying for. Transferring wouldn’t solve the fact that Boston is too expensive to live in. That’s why my parents told me to accept this one, to stay home and save the money on rent and transportation. And take care of my grandfather and dogs. It was a sign they said,

And I know it’s selfish to want otherwise. I mean I love my grandfather and I don’t want to be too far away if he, god forbids, dies but it hurts. It feels like I’m stuck in this false grown up world where I’m pretending that I’m going to actually earn something out of this vague program of busywork that will “prepare” me while everyone is out there doing things with their jobs full of purpose and fulfillment and life and cute guys and culture.

And yeah, I just needed to scream it out there in the void of the internet where it can’t get back to my family. Then they’d just feel guilty (which maybe they should have thought about before undermining my decision but whatever, I’m trying to get over the resentment). But there’s some good stuff, like seeing my family and having my dogs. And I have the car so I can go to the library and movies and. . . Yeah that’s it. But my first Zoom class is today so maybe it’ll be better. Please be less empty than I think. At least I got this all out in words instead of swirling in my head every time I go food shopping strangely enough.

#random musings #personal

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heavenboy09 · 1 year

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To A Very Amazing & Magnificent Asian Actress Of Dazzling Beauty.

She is best known for playing a DC COMICS Anti-Hero in 2016

She is Of Japanese 🇯🇵 Descent & She was born Los Angeles

She began practicing Karate in Middle School & became a Brown striped Belt before leaving for College

Worked as Reporter for a Sports show in NHK In Japan

She was member of the a Cappella group Medley, whose alumni include fellow actress, Kelly Marie Tran.

She got her start in the entertainment industry in middle school when she was cast a host for Movie Surfers, a short form entertainment news program on the Disney Channel.

In 2016, She made her Film Debut as THE DC COMICS Anti-Hero Character, Tatsuya Yamashiro aka

Katana 🗡

In The 2016 Superhero Film, SUICIDE SQUAD

She trained to use Sword for her character is expert swordsman or woman for that matter.

In 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2022 she starred in other roles for both Tv & Film & A Videogame. Mostly Animated Kids Shows & Began Starring as Kimiko in the Amazon Prime Series

THE BOYS

Based on the comic book 📖 of the same name.

& in 2022 she Plays a Videogame Character, Dani Nakamura in the 2022 Survival Horror videogame starting Actor Josh Duhamel

The Callisto Protocol

Please wish this Young Upcoming Dazzling Asian Actress A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

Ms. Karen Fukuhara 🇯🇵

Happy 31st Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 Ms. Fukuhara 🇯🇵

#Karen Fukuhara #Katana #suicidesquad #kimiko miyashiro #The Boys #SoundCloud

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edustan · 2 years

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The Best Film Schools in the US

If you want to work in the film industry, there are over 300 four-year colleges and institutions in the United States that offer degrees in film. Since no school is the same, and different schools have their strengths, the ideal option for an emerging filmmaker is to be somewhat different from the finest schools for filmmaking or animations.

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California Institute of the Arts CalArts was founded by Walt Disney and has a longstanding commitment to excellence in animation. Brenda Chapman, who co-directed Brave, Adrian Molina, who won an Oscar for co-directing Coco, and Tim Burton, the well-known writer, director, producer, and artist, are all alumni of the Institution. The REDCAT, Roy, and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, and Walt Disney Concert Hall are all situated on campus.

CalArts has six schools that provide bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater. Students can choose from over 70-degree programs, including scene design, technical directing, and character animation.

American Film Institute The American Film Institute Conservatory, or AFI, is consistently ranked at the top of the country’s film schools. The institution offers MFA programs in cinematography, directing, editing, producing, production design, and screenwriting and is located just above Hollywood in Los Angeles. Students collaborate in groups to develop, produce, create, direct, film and edit a variety of films during the two-year curriculum. The application procedure is extremely tough, and a substantial portfolio of creative work is expected for you to be accepted.

The AFI Awards, AFI Fest, and other arts festivals are held on the dynamic campus.

New York University New York University, located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, is perfect for students passionate about the arts. The Village is home to a wide range of theaters and performing spaces, in addition to great campus facilities. The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University often ranks among the top five film schools in the country. Billy Crystal, Vince Gilligan, and Martin Scorsese are just a few of the well-known figures on the alumni list, which also includes a long list of famous directors, producers, and creators. Spike Lee earned his MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, where he is now a university professor.

Hundreds of students graduate each year from the undergraduate Film and Television program, and the uni’s commitment to “learning by doing” is much more than a tagline as its students, staff, and instructors generate more than 5,000 films yearly.

Columbia University Columbia University, a private university in New York, is a member of the elite Ivy League. Columbia has a diverse set of strengths and is considered one of the best colleges in the country. Its School of the Arts regularly ranks among the top ten film schools in the country. MFA degrees in Film, Theater, Visual Arts, and Writing, and an MA in Film and Media Studies, and an interdisciplinary degree in Sound Art, are all offered at the institution. Columbia’s location on Manhattan’s Upper West Side will appeal to those seeking a cosmopolitan college experience.

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