Job Started

Three days of observing and then thrown in at the deep end for the Dress rehearsal on Saturday. Made mistakes but kept calm and quiet, so no problems. I suspect everyone thinks I know a lot more than I do but I am going to take the opportunity to learn as much as I can.

The play is wonderful. I cried through two run-throughs. (I then got home and burst into tears at the end of the TV Little Women adaptation – I’m very emotional at the moment). It’s about loneliness and connecting, and the actors are so good it’s not like watching actors – just people. The characters are unusual in the sense you rarely see the thoughts and feelings they convey here, but they are so ordinary there must be thousands of (real) people like them. I both identify strongly (painfully!) with them but the play has also made me question my own assumptions. I think it will get richer every time I see it. And it seems a great company of people. Everyone is really friendly and it feels like there’s no hierarchy (which strictly there isn’t in the theatre).

First preview tonight and my second time doing my job.

(I wish the photo above was my own – sadly not)

A wonderful post! I felt like I was talking to you over a cup of coffee at the table.

QUOTE: I suspect everyone thinks I know a lot more than I do but I am going to take the opportunity to learn as much as I can. UNQUOTE

True – but keep doing what you are. I had two co-workers at the museum that were hired for their positions based on the fact it was thought they knew more than they did. BOTH of which I ended up teaching the most basic tasks to… it infuriated me sometimes because one of them was hired on for OODLES of money – and only knew how to giggle and smile and talk about her son. But her parents were connected to the arts & culture crowds and had ties with board members so…. it is what it is. I taught her what should have been ‘kindergarten level’ in her position. While she made 4 times as much as I did.

So the point of that? If you can pull it off… DO IT. Keep your mouth shut, learn everything you can while letting them assume you know everything. I saw it work like a charm for 2 co-workers who moved on up the ladder a couple years later to cushy positions at the university and a big name hospital.

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Mer says:

A wonderful post! I felt like I was talking to you over a cup of coffee at the table.

QUOTE: I suspect everyone thinks I know a lot more than I do but I am going to take the opportunity to learn as much as I can. UNQUOTE

True – but keep doing what you are. I had two co-workers at the museum that were hired for their positions based on the fact it was thought they knew more than they did. BOTH of which I ended up teaching the most basic tasks to… it infuriated me sometimes because one of them was hired on for OODLES of money – and only knew how to giggle and smile and talk about her son. But her parents were connected to the arts & culture crowds and had ties with board members so…. it is what it is. I taught her what should have been ‘kindergarten level’ in her position. While she made 4 times as much as I did.

So the point of that? If you can pull it off… DO IT. Keep your mouth shut, learn everything you can while letting them assume you know everything. I saw it work like a charm for 2 co-workers who moved on up the ladder a couple years later to cushy positions at the university and a big name hospital.

15 January, 2018 — 20:48