Over worked and undered paid!!

On this workshop study we will take notes on working in the real world versus working in showbusiness. This study will be short and to the point, these notes will be to give you a view point of thinking with a open mind in the real world. Let’s start with rapper cardi b asking her fans at a concert on a hot day to throw water on her,in return the performer throw a microphone at a fan, let’s talk about Dave Chappelle being attacked on stage by a audience member, let’s mention rapper Drake, audience member throwing items at him on stage. Many many years ago if you were a awful performer the audience members would say BOO! BOOO!! until you leave the stage.I remember Sammy and I performing at a famous comedy club in Hollywood California,most of my career I am a adult entertainer and before going on stage the female comedian on stage before me was performing dirty material and the audience was eating it up,so when I was getting ready to go on stage the club agent said to me “now you keep it clean” I go up on stage doing a clean comedy skit with Sammy but I see the audience was not enjoying the skit so I started doing my dirty comedy skit then the audience was eating it up, the club agent ran to the control booth and turned off the stage lights so then I let Sammy go like a wild dog, the club agent turned off the microphone, Sammy said with out the microphone being on “the sign on door says age 21 and over BUT where the fuck are the milk 🥛 and 🍪 cookies!!!”.. when I walked off stage the club agent said why the hell did you do that, I said for you to keep it clean”, I said to the club agent “I didn’t say anything” the club agent said “I heard all of it!” I said to the club agent “did you see my lips moving” the club agent said “no” I said to the club agent”see now you need to apologize to me” the club agent then lost her mind saying “you said it! you said it! I know you did!!!. true story. What notes can you take from that true story or cardi B or a booing audience or even a bias agent,yes there’s bias club agents, talent scouts, and show business managers, what’s it about, it’s about a up coming star not being in the shadow of another talent,this means you get the crappy gigs and the agent or manager favorite acts get the nice gigs. In the real world at a real job it’s still the same, this means the promotion you have been working very hard for might go to the management favorite employee or friend of the family or even worse, a relative that knows nothing about the job position. keep in mind competition is always in the business world and yes show business is a real business, as a ventriloquist you need to stay ahead of the competition and you may ask who’s my competition as a ventriloquist, I will quote a line from a movie call “the professional” the quote is “EVERYONE!!” except the Lords of the art. in the real world you may work 12 hours shifts at a job, let’s be clear you are living someone else’s dream, let’s come to a understanding you never see the owner of the company that you work for or nearly see them much, you are the little person with a big dream just like the owner of the company that you work for, say to yourself if the owner of this company can have his or her dream why can’t I?.sure we all need to make a living, and living should be what we enjoy doing, and enjoying living. My first job ever was performing as a ventriloquist, I was In middle school traveling with a trunk with a ventriloquist doll inside name Sammy, all I knew was ventriloquism, my friends was doing crime to make money or to eat,but not me, I had Sammy and the art of ventriloquism. when I met my high school sweetheart life became not so sweet, she tossed me in to the real world with all her might, I’ve became a work acholic for her with a real job in the real world, before meeting my highschool sweetheart I was a work acholic for ventriloquism.today I can look at both sides of the coin of the real world and show business,this is what I see, the writers are on strike in Hollywood, because of the new comer AI, los Angeles city workers are on strike, what do both of these subjects have in common, what they have in common is unions. read this workshop notes twice, you’ll find useful information that you can brainstorm for your ventriloquist career. we covered so much ground on this subject,we talked about competition,we talked about bias,we talked about self sufficient, we talked about real world versus show business world..can the Hollywood writers win against AI,the answer is there’s always competition and there’s always new up and coming and the new up and coming will not be in the shadow so as I quote the line from the movie called the professional “EVERYONE!!”…in closing I would like to say my highschool sweetheart base on this subject was for an example of becoming unionized,this means I was no longer working for my passion or for myself.

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