In ‘97 I moved to LA to become a rich and famous Hollywood actor. I worked the graveyard shift at Cedars-Sinai hospital supporting computer systems. Long-story short, I was fired for hacking into a computer system (which was a joke gone wrong) and a temp agency placed me at a dot-com company. Now somehow, even with my gangsta-ass attitude and me constantly declaring “I’m an actor and this is just a day job” people kept giving me bigger job titles, more money, stock options, etc, etc. Years later after all the crazy rockstar-esque parties and watching colleagues literally make millions, the industry I kept dissing is now taking over Hollywood and our daily lives. I’m at the top of my game in the internet industry and I’m about to change the game with an original webisode series I’m self producing and acting in called “IT Gangsta” which has already received over 12,000 views and combines web 2.0, Urban 2.0, Hip-Hop and Technology.
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I just found out this morning that if you are a SAG member, you cannot
be an employee of SAG. I guess it’s a conflict of interest - but isn’t
the president of SAG a SAG member? I feel snubbed.
The job seemed cush - 32 hour work week + overtime managing, fixing, creating SAG web properties. But I would have to take an “honorable leave” from SAG in order to take the job.
So when the choice came up between a six figure job and my flailing acting career I chose: my flailing acting career cause you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to give up my dreams.
Plus, I already have a job at a company that doesn’t care that I’m an actor that goes on auditions from time to time.
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