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.

Email Frenzy (Have I mentioned I'm a Gmail Ninja Master?)

Holy Shit!
Gmail Ninja

And to prove it, addition to linking my posts with hilarity and explanations, I am going to illustrate this one with the use of gmail emoticons. Oh please, hold your applause!

After the HBO mailing, I decided to blindly email where no one might have emailed before . And so, I searched the email addresses for every channel: from NBC to BET, from FX to The Food Network, from Showtime to the CW, from A&E to CNN.

Then I went on and searched every network, production company, news station, talent agency, marketing firm, advertising video department, tv station, casting agency in the New York area for email addresses.

I changed my cover letterto be as particular as possible for each one, and I sent out my resume.
Sent it it like it's hot .

I then went to a seminar on getting a job in this economy. Like it would help me. Or suddenly provide me with the answer. Perhaps a beacon of light would fall over the one email address I really needed to send to, or the answer would be sung to me by ghosts in my sleep (oooooooooooooo marrrryriiich oooooooooooooooo). Needless to say, it did none of the above and I still don't have a job. But they did open my eyes to another outlet. They said, anyone can email in a resume. It comes in as an attachment and unless you really grab their eyes, they are not going to open it. But when was the last time you were in an office? How often does the fax machine ring? Almost never. Who still sends faxes? Find the fax numbers in the office. Fax them your cover letter and resume. And when someone in the office hears the fax ring, theyll think: that's weird, whats this? And when they pick it up , they will be forced to read it to figure out what it is. Then you already have their attention.
You can guess what I did next.
I found the fax numbers. I sent out my cover letter and resume . I faxed like it was hot . (And when the paper spews out the other side, sometimes it is hot .)