Since I’m still having a hard time generating new content, let me get back to a story we were in the midst of earlier!
Picking up from last time –
So, not too long after I went back out east, I got a call from yet another friend on AGT. (Your network is basically everything in television.) He asked if I’d be interested in an executive assistant job at an event planning company (for both televised and non-televised events).
During the interview/negotiation phase, I promised myself I would not take the job for anything less than $800/week.
I don’t remember where I came up with that number, or why I was so dead set on it. But I guess that’s what I decided I needed to live in Los Angeles, or what I thought I deserved at that point in my life.
I was offered basically $769/week. I tried to negotiate up, but they wouldn’t budge. When I thought about it in terms of only $31/week shy of what I wanted, I convinced myself, “I can shave that off my budget.”
Even though I’m talking about money here, I don’t think it was totally about the money. I wasn’t getting a good vibe…There was nothing truly pulling me to this job other than desperation.
I didn’t want to go back to LA if I could avoid it. I did not want to work for less than the number I’d set. (At the time, I thought that was selfish, but now I think maybe it was just smart and strong to stand up for yourself.) I wasn’t even really dying to work at an event company. I didn’t think it was a fantastic step in my career at the time (even though I think I’d like it better/be better at it now).
Even with those strikes against the job, I also didn’t super want to be back on the floor of a homeless shelter. (Though truthfully, it wasn’t all that bad. They showed us movies, and the other people in the shelter were so funny and interesting to be around).
And this is where I’ll pickup tomorrow!