David Chiu

I try to avoid mentioning anything about my day job(s) on this site, but recent events have compelled me to say something.

HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE DO IT???

How do people get up every day and go to some lame ass job that is totally pointless and devoid of passion and creativity? My motivation every day is that I’m collecting a nice paycheck which supports my Hollywood acting dreams. I live on the hope that one day I can go to my boss and say “I’m sorry but today is my last day. I’ve just been cast in a leading role in Francis Ford Coppola’s next film opposite Johnny Depp”. Without this dream, most of the jobs I’ve had over the years would have been COMPLETELY pointless. I’ve only been lucky in the fact that I’m really adept in picking up new technology skills without taking classes or even buying a book so I’m able to have a job that pays well. But I always end up resenting my job and my workplace. So in some ways I welcome recent events in which I was asked to resign. The office politics surrounding this event is worthy of a feature film. Everything has been - and still is very hush, hush. They are expecting me to disappear silently so that I can become a scapegoat for their failures. I feel a Jerry Maguire moment coming…

But a disruption in life can be good at times. It makes you re-evaluate goals, life, etc. It makes me think that working a “regular job” isn’t any more stable than being an actor. It makes me think that I really need to get my shit together and do what I REALLY LOVE doing which is acting and making movies. In the meantime I’ve started the process of looking for another day-job again. Although this time will be a little different. I am really going to look for a job that REALLY fits me and my goals.

Yes my goal is to become a well respected, well known, working actor.

But I could never settle for “just” being an actor. No. I have bigger dreams such as owning my own production studio and making my own movies and distributing my movies using internet convergence technologies. So I’ve decided the best bet is to get a tech/web development job at some film production studio or some other company which deals with entertainment and cutting-edge convergence technologies. That way I can still get a nice check but also hopefully learn skills which will advance my goals of becoming the next Mel Gibson (I mention him only because he’s an actor and a producer/director. Producer wise I’d rather be Robert Rodriguez who is totally hands-on, high-tech and independent from Hollywood).

ugh.

Why couldn’t I have been born to parents who own a production company or at least have a lot of high-power Hollywood connections.

Someone just needs to put me in a reality show.