<p>Appropriately, since it is tax day, today I had a crazy idea that my D seems to like. (You all know she’s been debating her career path the past couple of weeks.) This is going to sound nuts, but I looked up what it takes to get an accounting certificate from our community college. For just under 5 grand in tuition, in 11 classes, she can earn a certificate that allows her to do basic accounting including tax returns. She can take the classes year-round including the summer and even on-line.
For some reason I started thinking that this could be a good back-up job for an actor/writer, so I thought I would look it up. She is really good in math so she could do it. I wasn’t sure what she would say but she actually seems interested! Maybe she has been getting more worried about earning her living than we realized and this type of work seems more concrete to her.
Anyway, it is a possibility and even if she goes forward with the BFA acting degree she could get this done before, during and just after the acting degree, especially with that online flexibility. The comm college doesn’t require that it is finished in a certain time frame.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if she ended up an accountant and an actor?</p>
<p>I know a few visual artists who have done that. </p>
<p>I think it’s brilliant!!</p>
<p>Accounts who specialize in the nuances of actors/acting work have a great niche here in LA for sure, as I imagine they would in NYC. Great idea.</p>
<p>not to mention she’d be very busy Jan through April with taxes but she could spend the rest of the year focusing on acting(after she graduates). Makes a lot of sense. </p>
<p>I just looked on craigslist in Manhattan for 2 areas: part-time writing and part-time bookkeeping accounting. There are waaaay more jobs in bookkeeping. One was even for a part time bookkeeper for a “major theatrical production company” right in mid-town. BAM. Wouldn’t that be sweet?
There is also another type of accounting certificate too that you get after you have your bachelor’s degree. The bachelor’s can be in anything.(like acting) Then you take this series of classes as prep for the CPA exam. You take the exam and if you pass you are a CPA…which is of course a very stable job. Flexible and high paying to support the actor!
You guys are way more supportive than my friend here at home who basically says I am crazy!</p>
<p>you are NOT crazy! I think it’s a great idea. I could be her first customer - we’re about to fire our tax people of about 13 years because once again they messed up on our taxes. Happens every year and why we keep using them I’ll never know. </p>
<p>Just FYI - D heard of two people on the Guthrie waitlist (a girl and a boy) who were offered a spot in the last few days.</p>
<p>Another curve ball thrown at me after this long drawn-out process. Very proud that DD is off Emerson waitlist and offered 2 scholarships totaling 17k. Now I’m excited and she’s ignoring me! Heart and soul set on UCF; deposit paid. I really want to just go check out Emerson and Boston next weekend but she’s not hearing it. Any advice? I admit I’m excited for selfish reasons. Wish I had applied to Emerson my senior year and was very impressed when they came to our city for the info session last fall. Also, I’m an LA native and I think DD could be very successful if she spent a year at that campus. She has a bit of that West Coast carefree vibe from her mom. :)</p>
<p>My son has agreed to indulge me and visit two colleges next week. Both were his top two choices, but who would have guessed he would be accepted to both?? He pretty much has made up his mind, but I told him I wanted him to understand what each school had to offer. I then told him this trip was also about my need to visit both schools after spending so much time and energy researching etc. This also may be the last mom and son trip we will have for a long time, so I plan to savor it!</p>
<p>Entertainersmom, I envy you! 
My D is going to attend the Admitted Students Event at the New School next week-end and I wish I could go with her! Exactly for this reason-- to have one more mom-daughter trip. I was so scared of this audition season but now I have to admit-- it was so much fun and I really miss it!</p>
<p>notactingmom - I’m excited! I’m still licking my wounds because I couldn’t go with son to the Chicago Unifieds due to my work contract. After all the work and anxiety leading up to auditions (I’m talking about me!) son and dad went, and had a great father/son experience. Every public school in Maine has this upcoming week for April break, and I work as a special education social worker in a high school. Neither of us have visited the two schools, and I feel an unexpected sentimental attachment to both. Son is making the decision, and happily, his dad and I will be pleased for him to attend either one.</p>
<p>Dramamom (ME!!) is still going to be a dramamom and is going to have good news in the final decision thread soon…</p>
<p>^I’m hearing a drumroll…
Son will be on the Final Decision threads this weekend.</p>
<p>And I’m feeling pins and needles… :-S </p>
<p>What is it, Puma? Worry?</p>
<p>notactingmom…no!!! I’m on pins and needles waiting on entertainersmom and dramamom0804 decisions to be posted! I love you so much for thinking of me. My daughter and I are absolutely wonderful. Posted her decision of CCM on the Theater/Drama page. We are counting the days til Senior year is “a wrap!” Didn’t mean to worry you. Cyber hugs. XOXO</p>
<p>Ah, now I got it! I also like to read the posts when people made their decisions. It’s so much joy when your child feels good about him/herself (doesn’t happen often!) and is looking forward to the next stage of life. I was soooo worried about my D’s college admissions process! Well, I was sure she won’t get into any BFA program, and she told me she’d probably take a gap year if she didn’t. So, I am over the Moon every day since her first acceptance arrived in early March. Still am! And very happy for all the parents who feel relieved and happy after when this time of stress and worries comes to the end! Yay!</p>
<p>Any chance there are some Pace committed students or their parents on this thread? I am simultaneously thrilled for my D and petrified at the reality of her moving so far away (from MN) and living in NYC! After so many months of intensive research and emotional investment in this process, I find it hard to transition to the ending of this road and move on to the acceptance of reality phase! I am thankful to have found this forum of support and connection and wish I had become involved on here sooner. Thanks!</p>
<p>@kbsmom I don’t know any Pace parents but was wondering how familiar you are with New York City? Maybe a trip for a 2-3 day visit would really help? Then you and D would feel more comfortable. Spring is lovely in New York City! Or maybe add a couple days on when you take her in August.
My D first spent time there when she was only 14. I drove away thinking I am crazy to leave my 14 yr old here!!</p>