All in a Days Search For Work

Some weeks are posting weeks, some are emailing weeks, some are faxing weeks, and others are mailing weeks.
Last week- was a mailing week.
As I am sure you have surmised from glancing through my blog, I have been searching the world wide web, the yellow pages, and any Rolodex I can get my hands on trying to get my resume in the hands of that one special yet still unknown person who is going to offer me a job.
Every few months or so, I acquire enough address to prompt me to send out a mass mailing. This isn’t the type of mailing where you BCC your contact list and send them some annoying message. I never do that. This is when I have saved enough headers, footers, and signatures from different emails that I have received and now have the mailing addresses of some places that I would like to work.
I also then searched production companies, and use my powers (cross referencing with the yellow pages, google, and each companies personal website) to get the mailing address for each of them. Then I’ve searched in wikipedia ‘shows that film in New York’. I play around with the wording a little. ‘Reality shows filming in NYC’. ‘Current television shows New York’. ‘Soap Operas New York City’. I then google and google, opening hundreds of new tabs, skimming each link for what those wizards over at the googleplex might have thought would be useful for me. Gleaning whatever information I can to track down some contact information for any show I can find.
In the end of all of this, I usually come up with about 40 to 60 names and addresses that I can send my information to. It may not be worth the stamps, but the hope is that someone is more likely to open a piece of mail and be forced to glance through my resume rather than discarding my email with an unopened resume attachment.

Screwed by an Emoticon

I'll do all of you one better.
I needed to get my resume into the right hands. Literally perhaps, the paper into their hands. Perhaps another something that nobody bothers to do. Another thing that makes me unique and individual (and hire-worthy).
Mail. No, I didn't forget the E. I'm talking mail: like stamps and envelopes post office Snail Mail.
So you can guess what I did. I searched for the mailing address to every network, channel, ad agency, casting agency, production company, and tv station.
I printed out about 100 copies of my resume. I printed my cover letter, filling in the individual companies naming before printing. I folded, I stuffed, I stamped. I felt like people must have 15 years ago, when that was actually how one had to apply for a job. With real paper.
And paper cuts.
The sweat and blood, literally blood, that has gone into my job search...

So far, I have mass emailed, I have emailed address that didn't even necessarily exist, I have applied, and I have faxed. Now I also mailed. I think I have proven my persistence.