Time to move on?
It's been an awfully long time since I've posted on Livejournal. I think the last one was in the beginning of the year. Poor thing needed to be dusted off. Though it doesn't help to much that I only have a few readers who actually read this thing, and to those few readers, thank you for reading my livejournal. GOOD FOR YOU!
Yeah, I wasn't sure how to properly end that so "Good for you" was the first thing that popped into my mind. Maybe I should have offered cookies. Everyone loves cookies, right?
Alright, this isn't gonna be a pointless random "I'm updating my rarely used Livejournal" post, this one will actually have a point! Yes, a point. That point is....I think I'm ready to leave Northern California.
I've been thinking about it and talking to a very few select...umm...few somewhere between a year in half and two years and I think this will be the summer that I may actually leave Northern California. There's no set date or anything, my goal is just to figure it out sometime during this summer and maybe make the effort to get down there by or before fall.
It's not that I hate Northern California or that I'm tired of Northern California, I just don't think there's anything here for me anymore. I mean that on a professional level, not a personal level. I have plenty of good and close friends up here plus family that all make me happy and that I love being around. It's not that at all, I just feel like on a professional level, I've done everything I could possible do here in Nor-Cal.
Wrestling wise, I've worked for just about every company here except for two and I just about Referee a show or two every weekend. Sometimes it's 3 shows a weekend. Not that I'm complaining about that, I really enjoy Ref'ing as much as possible. It's good experience and you're always learning something new each and every show, plus I enjoy being around such amazing people but there's only so many places you can work before you say "Okay, maybe it's time to try a new area.", and I think I've come to that point and I think Southern California is the area I want to give a shot to.
There's a few wrestling companies I already know of that I can work for and I could just build from there and go from there and if I don't branch off and work for other companies for awhile, doing one or two wrestling shows a month for a couple of months would be a nice little break. Eventually the sickness would hit me and I'd get the itch that I have to work more shows to make myself not so stir crazy but until then doing a couple of shows a month would be okay with me.
Rocky wise, I'd probably be done with Rocky Horror. Barely Legal is my home and I would feel kinda odd if I joined another cast. It'd almost feel like I was cheating on Barely Legal. Though I would probably go to Sins a lot because I have a few friends who already perform or does tech for Sins and when I went to their show at the beginning of the year I really enjoyed the show Sins put on and also one rule out of many rules I follow is "You never can say never". Which in my experience with doing any kind of show, Rocky or wrestling, is very true.
Someone has already gave me a pretty good offer to rent a room that is in Bakersfield. So I'll still be an hour or hour in a half away from LA but still that really isn't that bad. Plus I'll be near two friends of mine who I literally grew up with. So it would be good to see them more often and hang out with them. Plus just a change of scenery is always good...even if it is Bakersfield.
The only thing I gotta figure out is how do I go about looking for a job before I get down there? I've never really looked for a job while living such a big distance from where I'm looking. Do I just sent resumes and hope they schedule a over the phone interview? How does that all work? That sorta confuses me. If anything I'd like to save some of my unemployment....oh yeah I'm unemployed right now and collecting unemployment. Forgot to mention that. Anyways save some unemployment, find a job, and bring some stuff with me that I need to Bakersfield and move in and start work right away. Instead of saving some money up while working in the Bay Area and then heading down there in hopes I find work quickly.
So that is a bit of a concern for me. Other than that I really would like to get down there by the end of the summer or at least at the beginning of Fall. That's my plan. Find a job, get my ass down there, see what I can do, and hope for the best.
It's a good goal right?
Yeah, I wasn't sure how to properly end that so "Good for you" was the first thing that popped into my mind. Maybe I should have offered cookies. Everyone loves cookies, right?
Alright, this isn't gonna be a pointless random "I'm updating my rarely used Livejournal" post, this one will actually have a point! Yes, a point. That point is....I think I'm ready to leave Northern California.
I've been thinking about it and talking to a very few select...umm...few somewhere between a year in half and two years and I think this will be the summer that I may actually leave Northern California. There's no set date or anything, my goal is just to figure it out sometime during this summer and maybe make the effort to get down there by or before fall.
It's not that I hate Northern California or that I'm tired of Northern California, I just don't think there's anything here for me anymore. I mean that on a professional level, not a personal level. I have plenty of good and close friends up here plus family that all make me happy and that I love being around. It's not that at all, I just feel like on a professional level, I've done everything I could possible do here in Nor-Cal.
Wrestling wise, I've worked for just about every company here except for two and I just about Referee a show or two every weekend. Sometimes it's 3 shows a weekend. Not that I'm complaining about that, I really enjoy Ref'ing as much as possible. It's good experience and you're always learning something new each and every show, plus I enjoy being around such amazing people but there's only so many places you can work before you say "Okay, maybe it's time to try a new area.", and I think I've come to that point and I think Southern California is the area I want to give a shot to.
There's a few wrestling companies I already know of that I can work for and I could just build from there and go from there and if I don't branch off and work for other companies for awhile, doing one or two wrestling shows a month for a couple of months would be a nice little break. Eventually the sickness would hit me and I'd get the itch that I have to work more shows to make myself not so stir crazy but until then doing a couple of shows a month would be okay with me.
Rocky wise, I'd probably be done with Rocky Horror. Barely Legal is my home and I would feel kinda odd if I joined another cast. It'd almost feel like I was cheating on Barely Legal. Though I would probably go to Sins a lot because I have a few friends who already perform or does tech for Sins and when I went to their show at the beginning of the year I really enjoyed the show Sins put on and also one rule out of many rules I follow is "You never can say never". Which in my experience with doing any kind of show, Rocky or wrestling, is very true.
Someone has already gave me a pretty good offer to rent a room that is in Bakersfield. So I'll still be an hour or hour in a half away from LA but still that really isn't that bad. Plus I'll be near two friends of mine who I literally grew up with. So it would be good to see them more often and hang out with them. Plus just a change of scenery is always good...even if it is Bakersfield.
The only thing I gotta figure out is how do I go about looking for a job before I get down there? I've never really looked for a job while living such a big distance from where I'm looking. Do I just sent resumes and hope they schedule a over the phone interview? How does that all work? That sorta confuses me. If anything I'd like to save some of my unemployment....oh yeah I'm unemployed right now and collecting unemployment. Forgot to mention that. Anyways save some unemployment, find a job, and bring some stuff with me that I need to Bakersfield and move in and start work right away. Instead of saving some money up while working in the Bay Area and then heading down there in hopes I find work quickly.
So that is a bit of a concern for me. Other than that I really would like to get down there by the end of the summer or at least at the beginning of Fall. That's my plan. Find a job, get my ass down there, see what I can do, and hope for the best.
It's a good goal right?