hubris0

Stupid entertainment industry.

So a good friend and colleague of mine called me up and asked if I'd be interested in assisting him on an upcoming gig.

He's had a very good year. I have not. We worked together on a show that wrapped in December. He picked up work again in February and is still working. He wraps that in a few weeks, and he already has a possible job offer that will pretty much start as the current job ends.

I've worked seven weeks all year.

I have been his assistant in the past. He helped me rise from being his assistant to being his colleague. He has done more to help me than anyone else in this entire town. It has been very hard not to resent that he has work coming to him and hasn't even had to hunt while I have trouble just getting my calls returned.

He asked me to assist him because it's a complicated gig and he needs someone he can rely on. He also knows I'm having a bit of a rough year. So the offer is a help. Except for one thing.

I said I'd probably do it, but of course I'd have to leave if an opportunity to edit came up. He said no, he needed a commitment.

So now I have an impossible choice to make. Do I risk sabotaging my career for a job I'm overqualified for? Or do I risk getting evicted (especially if the asshole Republicans in the Senate keep filibustering the Unemployment Benefits extension *) by not taking the job and waiting for another gig that may not come in time?

I can't believe I'm even contemplating doing it. I can't believe I'm even contemplating not doing it.



* This is, by the way, a thoroughly repugnant, inhumane, monstrous act of legitimate evil.