Wednesday, May 6, 2009

"I Love You" only means "I Do Not Hate You"

I'M CATCHING UP on my blog reading and missed this til now, but SERIOCITY did a great piece last week on the neurotic calculus of staffing season.

I put together a list of rules to help you make it through:

1. If someone says they love you, that only means they don't hate you. It does not mean that they will hire you. Quite the contrary.

2. No matter what level you are, you will always be too expensive.

3. Even if you have twenty different samples, you will never have the exact right one.

4. The studio or network list doesn't mean anything if you're on it, but it does mean something if you're not.

5. Most people don't know how to recognize good writing, which is why having the exact right sample is so crucial.

6. You will always knock a meeting out of the park on a show that doesn't get picked up.

7. There is always one show that gets picked up that makes everybody in town go, "Where the fuck did THAT come from?" That show never lasts.

8. The rumors you hear only come true if they diminish your chances of getting a job.

9. Somebody in one of your meetings went to college with that psychopath you worked for.


There's much, much more. Go read the full post here.

1 rumbles:

deborah Nathan said...

Loved this. HAHAHAHA!!!