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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Did I make the wrong decision?
« on: Sep 15, 2016, 10:04 am »
Last year I found myself in a tricky position. I was In my second year of an SM degree where we had one lecturer for the whole 3 years (on occasion we would have guests). This lecturer decided that I was in need of 'help' in with my personal life and started giving me advice on how to live my life i.e what food I should eat, when and how I should exercise, how I should think and process things and everything I was doing wrong under the sun.
It eventually got to a point that she pulled me aside and told me that I will never, ever make a good SM - at which point I was heartbroken. After a year and a half of dealing with an unprofessional uni environment (teachers not allowing us to work out of uni, yet them missing classes due to outside work; being put on shows and expected to perform at a professional level with no academic support etc.) I decided enough was enough. If my sole lecturer didn't believe in me, how was I going to progress any further, so I left.
Later that day I received a phone call offering me professional interstate work, which I took. After that contract was up, I had another professional interstate contract lined up. It's now been a few months since my last contract and I'm struggling to find work.
Was leaving uni a big mistake?
Thanks,
Katrina
It eventually got to a point that she pulled me aside and told me that I will never, ever make a good SM - at which point I was heartbroken. After a year and a half of dealing with an unprofessional uni environment (teachers not allowing us to work out of uni, yet them missing classes due to outside work; being put on shows and expected to perform at a professional level with no academic support etc.) I decided enough was enough. If my sole lecturer didn't believe in me, how was I going to progress any further, so I left.
Later that day I received a phone call offering me professional interstate work, which I took. After that contract was up, I had another professional interstate contract lined up. It's now been a few months since my last contract and I'm struggling to find work.
Was leaving uni a big mistake?
Thanks,
Katrina