So, What Have You Got to Show For Yourself Young Lady?

In the last twelve months, I have:

• Received my Bachelors Degree
  
• Learned to make coffee
• Memorized the the excel spreadsheet shortcut handbook
• Perfected the art of changing in and out of my interview suit in Banana Republic dressing rooms
• Completed a senior Capstone Thesis Project
• Accumulated enough twitter accounts for promotional sites at internships to donate to the people in Oklahoma city who still don't have twitter
• Had business cards made. 5 free ones. They sit on my dresser.
• Had my fair share of celebrity encounters
• Moved to New York City
• Applied and re-applied to the NBC Page Program
• Probably got blacklisted from The Daily Show (I have tickets to see Jon Stewart as well as tickets to The Colbert Report this upcoming March, so stay tuned...)
• Started attending shows at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
• Made some sort of impression on the CBS Page Program
• Realized I know very little about sports...
• Yet also went to my first Rangers game.
• Hopefully maintained a positive attitude
• Devoted more unpaid internship hours than most people do in a lifetime
• Dealt with absent minded creative supervisors, and overly anal OCD supervisors
• Sent out a lot of resumes and applications
• Met a ton of extraordinary people. Nice, extraordinary people.

Bring it on 2010! Hit me with your best shot.

If At First You Don't Succeed, Do Something Else While You Keep On Trying

For those readers who doubt me ever making it in my chosen career, here’s something that might make you feel better about yourself. After all, some do find pleasure in others failures. I do have a Plan B. And after that, I have a plan C. Plan B isn’t too exciting at the moment, so lets move on to Plan C.
If it's true, at least for this year, that I am not destined to get a job alongside any famous TV Star, or even have the privilege of getting coffee for a brilliant and broke small time producer, I would like to work at Banana Republic.
But for those readers who are suddenly eyeing me as a sellout, let me reassure you that I have been going about this Plan C search in the same way I am going about Plan A. Driven.
A few months back when I was visiting New York, on a day that I had no interviews scheduled, I put on my best Banana Republic dress, and hit the streets. In my workbag, I had a portfolio of 20 copies of my resume, and 20 Banana Republic applications, filled out and ready to go. And I started shopping.
At every store I immediately asked for the manager and explained that I was looking to work at their company. After being told that they have a website to where I can submit my information online, I reassure them that I have already submitted, but I have a personal copy I wanted to deliver myself. Now, while some floor managers are just confused with a ‘What am I supposed to do with this paper now?’ look on their faces, others are impressed, and immediately begin glancing through my credentials.
So what is the point of this story?
The point is, to all of you potential employers out there, that all of my other tricks to fight my way into the door have not just been ways of sucking up to get a job in the entertainment industry. Instead, no matter the task, I will put forth 150%. While it may not be a dream career move to work in the interim time at Banana Republic, their clothes fit me perfectly and I’ll get to use my discount to start creating the working women’s wardrobe for when I do finally land that contract job.
Plus, there is always the hope that it will help pay the rent for my apartment in New York City.