Having a full-time, 9-to-5 day job that I use to support my New York lifestyle is interesting. By day, I'm a mild-mannered salesman for a large IT company based in the New York City area. And by night I try to find auditions and get a paid acting job that will allow me to, ya know, just do that.
I enjoy my job quite a bit to a certain extent, and I get to travel occasionally, which is pretty nice! But it starts to get a little bit stressful and exhausting trying to find the time to balance everything. On a day like today, when I'm reporting to my office in the financial district in downtown Manhattan, I'm fighting not to get just a little bit overwhelmed. Tonight I'll go from downtown Manhattan up to Midtown in order to meet a friend for a quick dinner, in order to discuss a plan to produce three small-scale plays sometime this year. From there, I'll jump on the train to try to make it from Manhattan to Forest Hills in less than an hour (no easy feat).
But I know there's a part of it that keeps me chugging along. It's the fact that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is going to open in a week and a half, and it'll all be worth it. That sometime this year I'll be directing a show, acting in one, and producing one of my original plays. And that I'm working on a really great webseries that will hopefully get some attention.
It's a lot. It's always a lot. But it's worth it. Keep pushing, guys!