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Mocha Bear
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My Series of Unfortunate Events.....
#7401492 - 09/12/07 05:18 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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So I'm new here but I thought I'd share with you all what I've been through the past few months that got me to this point and to show how crazy life can be.
So I went to this school called Full Sail in Florida where I got two degree's and graduated in April of this year. Great! I'm a college grad in Orlando, Fl so what do I do? First thing is I need a new place before the end of the month because both of my roommates have moved on. Well I find a place, but the person asked if it was okay for me to wait another month since the room I was in was occupied by a friend in need. I ended up staying with a classmate for the month of May. It was cool...I was looking for work and we both helped each other out alot. If he was low on money I'd help, we both helped out as much as we could as far as weed was concerned, and it was great.
So it's nearing June and my friend has to go back home. Great well I have a new place to move too right? Well...not exactly. The very DAY I dropped him off at the airport I find out that my card is on hold. I call the bank and come to find out I was now a victim of identity theft. Not only that but I also had to get everything out of my storage (Since I had no money to pay for the next month) and cram it into my car AND I couldn't stay with the guy I intended to move in with because alas I had no money.
I had to wait until all the money was taken out to do anything about it. All the job offers were falling through and so here I am 2 months out of graduation, with all my things in my car, no job, and no place to live. It was tough, but me being the person I am I tried to stay positive. As long as I didn't have to go back to Mississippi I was fine.
Needless to say it wasn't meant for me to stay in Orlando because NO ONE would hire me, not even freggin McDonald's. I crashed on couches mostly but there were time where I had to sleep in the car. The parents helped out a bit with money but it got kinda hectic driving around filling out applications and not knowing where I was going to sleep the next day.
2 months I tried. 2 months I hoped. 2 months nothing happened. So I had to do the one thing I didn't want to do and that was to come back home. I decided it was much better to look for work with a stable roof over my head and thats what home is for. I said goodbye to as many friends as I could (And most of them smoked me out of course) and I drove the 13 hours from Orlando to Mississippi (I got lost in Mobile however, scary place.)
One thing I forgot to mention is I also turned 22 during all this. My whole life I've been in school and band so I've never had a real job. Full Sail is a 24/7 school so I was always at school...but now I regret never working because they tell you to go to school to get a job, then you try to get a job and they won't hire you because you don't have experience.
So here I sit in the place I don't want to be. I'm back in Mississippi and things still haven't looked up. I don't know whats meant for me, but I know through everything I've grown as a person. I've made new friends, found out more about myself and what I can handle, and I have an all around appreciation for life now. It looks like the opportunity for me to go back to Orlando is coming and I hope finally that things in my life start looking up.
So I guess my question is (To anyone who made it this far, THANK YOU) what would you do? What do you do when know one wants to hire you, what do you do when you don't know where your place in life is? How do you handle feeling disappointed because of how your friends and family may look at you, possibly calling you a failure?
I feel like a failure, even though I know I'm not. It's just hard to know I've been out of school for 5 months now and I've done nothing 
Oh yeah I forgot to mention. Once I made it home my car (The one I had in Florida was the family car) died...so that's one less car to use. Therefore now I'm usually stuck at home while the parents and sister is at work ALL DAY. Just looking for jobs online and by the time everyone gets home everything is closed (Things close at 9 down here...lame) Yeah my life is great. Everything happens for a reason though...I just can't wait to find out what those reasons are.
-------------------- The love you take is equal to the love you make....
Edited by tclsc03 (09/12/07 05:24 PM)
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dirtworshipper
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Re: My Series of Unfortunate Events..... [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7401694 - 09/12/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You're not a failure at all, my friend. A job doesn't make you a success or a failure. I do understand, however, the lack of money... which leads to less independence in this materialistic land...
Things will work out! and you already know that!
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Everything happens for a reason though...I just can't wait to find out what those reasons are.
Maybe as soon as you stop think about finding out those reasons, they'll become clear?
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SneezingPenis
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Re: My Series of Unfortunate Events..... [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7402079 - 09/12/07 07:32 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow, reading your story was eerie.
I am from Mississippi, and I went to Full Sail.
All I can tell you is that your story is the exact same story for almost every single Full Sail graduate. he school sucks serious donkey balls. Do yourself a favor and stop putting it on your resume... im not kidding.... the second I took Full Sail off my resume, I got a job.
I have been out of full sail for about 5 years now, and I just got off tour with Tanya Tucker and have a few other tour offers right now.... but that had absolutely nothing to do with Full Sail.
I busted my ass for 3 years. I went to Festival studios in New orleans where I interned with no pay for a year while I had another job, then moved to TN and interned at a few studios before giving up on Recording Engineering (there is no money in it) and started an apprenticeship with Peter Framptons monitor engineer... I did that for a year while holding another full time job.
Finally, I got a chance to work at a venue, and started to build a name for myself around town to the point where I have a full time house gig and go out on the road every now and then. Im not telling you this to brag, but you have to stop acting like you are done putting your dues in because you graduated from Full Sail. If you thought Full Sail was tough, you need to just give up now, because it is exponentially longer hours, harder work, and less friendly people coddling your collegiate ass.
I dont know which degrees you got, but if you got Recording Engineering, I suggest you go into live sound and stop telling people you even went to full sail. If you have a digital media or film degree.... well, I dont know much about those departments, but I do know some fellow Full Sailors that had those degrees and I think one out of the 6 I knew got a job in their field, but he had to go to canada.
Hoping to stay in Orlando to get a job is a huge mistake... you dont think that anything within a hundred mile radius of Full Sail is going to be saturated with graduates willing to work for free? If you are in Film, you have to go to LA, any other degree, you have to move to a major city, like NY, Chicago, Miami, Nashville or Austin.
Shitty shit happens.... gotta roll with it. The second you think you are a victim, then you are. I hope I dont come off as a huge asshole, but I am talking not just from general experience, but experience of your exact same situation.
on a side note, Does that teacher named Hunter still teach there? He taugh audio maintenance... he was this really eccentric guy who had about 1000 patents on all sorts of shit, the guy was a genius.
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Re: My Series of Unfortunate Events..... [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7404060 - 09/13/07 08:29 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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man, thats harsh, im sorry to hear that things had gone so bad for you. truth be told, it probably isnt the first time it happened to you, and it probably wont be the last.
I hate to say it, but you just have to sat shit for a while, get your feet back under you, and do whatever you can to get yourself where you need to be.
Itll happen eventually, you dont seem like the type that would actually want to stay back home for too long, use it at motivation
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Mocha Bear
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Re: My Series of Unfortunate Events..... [Re: ZippoZ]
#7404786 - 09/13/07 03:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thank you all for the advice, I really appreciate it.
YawningAnus that's crazy! Small world huh? Yeah I know Hunter, he taught one of our classes. I hear he's pretty tough to work with behind the scenes though, but regardless he is a genius.
By the way you're not coming off harsh at all really. I appreciate that you are being real with me and not sugar coating things. You give me hope actually because I finally know someone else from Mississippi that made it from Full Sail. I'm not even sure what I want to do anymore. My goals have changed so much in the 2 years that I've been there really, but everything will work out for me I'm sure.
Throughout my time there people saw something in me that I didn't. I was SO down on myself my first year there and October of last year I told myself that I wasn't going to be depressed anymore. Needless to say once I decided to change things started going downhill, but through everything I've stuck to being happy and I prefer to live life that way.
-------------------- The love you take is equal to the love you make....
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