When you think about difficult people, is there someone who immediately comes to mind? Personally, there is one performer who did manage to leave such a scar that I often thought of them as my example person while reading this book. Not that we ever have to deal with difficult personalities in stage management. But…
Hello friends, I am really excited to bring you this guest post today from my friend Iris. We did a few contracts together out at sea years ago, when I was a cruise ship stage manager. While I’ve definitely got my land legs back, she married a sailor and is still part of ship life…
Friends, do you remember when I was so excited about my matching red glasses I bought from the Christmas Tree store like I was a real adult a few months ago? That picture is of them now and man oh man do they feel like symbolic of 2020 for me. I started out this year…
Pixabay A bad credit score is like a nasty smell that follows you around wherever you go. It’s not something you can just ignore, as it will turn up in some of the most critical moments of your life. Your credit rating affects you when you apply for a job, find a new place to…
Friends, as many of you know, I have been trying to buy a house for a while now. The hunt really started in November, which I very naively just started looking for houses online through Zillow. I finally found a few I was interested in, gave Zillow my info and then received 18000 phone calls…
Hello friends, I have a recently found a money saving opportunity you can look into if you find you have a lot of time on your hands at the moment. I emailed my car insurance company this week (NJ Manufacturers, pretty much the best insurance in the world – I am totally biased, I’ve always…
It has been a hot second since I’ve done one of these, but I spent the last several months foraying into an entirely new adventure of teaching and it sure was an interesting semester. For this particular breakdown, I’m going to revisit what a day looked like back in the BEFORE – when we could…
I just want to start this post with the idea that relaxing and resetting aren’t bad things to do with some of the extra time we find ourselves with in the unusual and extraordinary turbulent time we find ourselves in. Amp up your bubble bath time. Read for fun. Go for long, rambling, solitary walks.…
I read a great blog post this week that was a breakdown of how this blogger learned to relate to money and how, year by year, he got better and better at what he was doing. But one section in particular stood out to me because I felt like it summed up my major financial…
Hi. That includes me. I haven’t said a lot on what’s been happening in the world, but I have been thinking a lot. And reading. And donating. Many, many things have stuck with me, but the one that spurred me to finally write down some of my thoughts was this post by J.D. Roth, who…
You’ve been feeling a lot of pain throughout your entire foot recently. You’re not sure what’s wrong but there is one person who might know. A Podiatrist. A podiatrist specializes in all things foot care. Becoming one takes about as much time and energy as it does to pursue any other job in the medical…
Most of the time when we talk about a stage management toolkit, we’re talking about a literal Mary Poppins-eqsue box of stuff you use to solve problems in rehearsals and performances. I’ve talked about this before in terms of personal finance. In my personal finance toolkit, I have things like budget worksheets and net worth…
Profile I am thirty five years old and I am a Visiting Instructor of Theatre Arts/Production Management at a state university, where I make $26,418.51 for the semester. I’m pretty sure I have spent about 480 hours on Zoom this month. OMG. Spending & Saving So life’s still pretty weird, right? We’ve entered Stage 1…
Networking feels like such a dirty word to me (though it is not). The thing that helped me with it the most was a mindset change. I used to go into networking events thinking what can this do for me. Then I can across a wildly useful tip – think of networking as what you…
If you’re looking to start making money on your own, then you need to start developing a good idea of what your freelancing career is actually going to look like. You can start by looking at which skills you already have and how you can apply them to start earning. But it’s also worth looking…
My quest to stay busy and productive during quarantine has led me to a habit I wanted to get better at for some time – I’ve been reading at least a chapter a day of a book. Sometimes it’s for fun, sometimes it’s about money, but some of them are from my list of books…
Clearly, there are so many different career paths to go down. If you’re thinking about pursuing higher education and going to university, you’ll soon see the sheer wealth of subjects to choose from. It’s hard to single one out for yourself, so the best approach is to do some research. Consider what careers or areas…
So over the last few weeks, we looked at budgets and the some tips behind spending less and earning more. I think of budgets as sort of a living thing that you have to experiment with a bit to find a system that really works for you. I’ll level with you. I don’t love budgets.…
In a time of economic uncertainty, where it seems like the wheels of commerce have ground to a stop, many of us are worried about how we’re going to adapt financially. Over the past few weeks and months, we’ve all had to learn the importance of staying on or under budget, of keeping an open…
With my university contract coming to a close at the end of June, I’ve had an eye out for any side hustles that can prop up my income until the theaters start to reopen. I recently received an email through the full school distribution email about a $400 a week part time gig through LDS…
There is a fun little challenge going around the personal finance community called the 10 year challenge, where you look at where you were financially 10 years ago and compare it to where you are now – surely it’s a play off all those folks posting pictures of themselves 10 years ago, but a little…
The current pandemic of Covid-19 has upturned millions of lives. Some people have lost their lives and those that haven’t gotten ill have been affected. Financially, there has never been a moment like this in the history of the US. It is proving to be even worse than the Great Depression. Is it hopeless, then,…
We took a bit of a hiatus on this topic here, but we are back with the other half of the budgeting formula. Spend less than you earn. If you want a quick primer on how to make a budget, check out this post from a few weeks ago. If you’re interested in kick starting…
I’ve been thinking a little about the burnout even in this ridiculous coronavirus era where there actually seems to be quite a lot of time. Have you seen that meme about for some people it’s a sprinkle, some it’s a storm, and some are drowning? I am firmly on the sprinkle bus. I have a…
Ya’ll, lets look at the 2019 Stage Manager Survey today. “The what?” you might say. Every couple of years, David J. McGraw and whatever university he’s working at (I believe it’s currently Elon), conduct a fairly extensive survey of stage managers polling everything from education level, frequency of wearing show blacks, types of training, how…