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The Hardline / Considering Going Equity
« on: Mar 06, 2009, 08:17 am »
Hello,
I have been SMing for quite some time now and lately I have been going back and forth about going Equity. Now a year ago, I would never have said, "I want to go equity!" - but I am getting older, and it's hard to ignore certain things...like the pay difference, like the fact that I have to have my breaks too and so on. I have no points as of now - so ya know, I still have a long way to go. But I feel like deciding to even go down that road is a big decision in itself. I just wondered what everyone thought about it. In my opinion, in a few years I will either have to be equity or doing something else, because I can't live on what I'm making now for the rest of my life. Due to the fact that I am actually considering it, leads me to believe that it is time also because, like I said, a year ago it wasn't a thought in my head at all.
Going equity may seem like the obvious choice, but I have always been happy as non-eq, so I didn't worry about it.
Also, I was wondering, because of the economy and all that good stuff, and by good I mean horrible, is it harder to get in now? And does that just mean I would be competing with a ridiculous amount of SM's now because everyone is competing for the same 5 jobs? Because of course, if I can't get a job as an equity sm, then it would be counterproductive.
Just some thoughts I was thrownin out there.
I have been SMing for quite some time now and lately I have been going back and forth about going Equity. Now a year ago, I would never have said, "I want to go equity!" - but I am getting older, and it's hard to ignore certain things...like the pay difference, like the fact that I have to have my breaks too and so on. I have no points as of now - so ya know, I still have a long way to go. But I feel like deciding to even go down that road is a big decision in itself. I just wondered what everyone thought about it. In my opinion, in a few years I will either have to be equity or doing something else, because I can't live on what I'm making now for the rest of my life. Due to the fact that I am actually considering it, leads me to believe that it is time also because, like I said, a year ago it wasn't a thought in my head at all.
Going equity may seem like the obvious choice, but I have always been happy as non-eq, so I didn't worry about it.
Also, I was wondering, because of the economy and all that good stuff, and by good I mean horrible, is it harder to get in now? And does that just mean I would be competing with a ridiculous amount of SM's now because everyone is competing for the same 5 jobs? Because of course, if I can't get a job as an equity sm, then it would be counterproductive.
Just some thoughts I was thrownin out there.
