Is it wrong I don't want to study for four years?

fishbowlfreshman
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:28:37 +0000

^ I’m not planning on starting a new blog. I actually had to delete my old Live Journal and save it on a zip drive for posterity a few years back.

But, if you want to see a great one that shows what life is really like for an LA working actress that actually makes a living at it, you should look up [The Working Actress](http://theworkingactress.com/) and scroll all the way down to read up from the beginning when she started it in January 2010 'til she made the jump into series regular land in '11 and stopped posting in '12. I had never seen it before until the other day, read it from the beginning, and was like “yep, yep, yep” except on a few points regarding agents. At any rate, It’s full of great nuggets. She’s cagier than me in maintaining her anonymity, but she’s definitely for real although I suspect she may have actually posted a good part of it in retrospect off old journal entries. Definitely so if she’s who I think she is …

Of course, another one to read is [Jenna Fischer’s long single post](http://www.actorsinfobooth.com/industry-news/hollywood/752-jenna-fischers-advice-to-actors) that originated on MySpace but has been passed around a lot in which she described her early struggles that the vast majority of actors in LA who didn’t come to town with solid rep locked up have/had in common.

I hate to randomly bump an old thread, but I thought it could be useful to someone although TWA actually has a degree in acting. It’s good for the kids on here to know what they’re aspiring to get themselves into … even if it scares the parents a bit. :)