today is my last day before I start training on my new job. I hope to survive it when I mean that I mean of course the trainers like me and everything.
I spent the morning just spinning my head with the budget for this year and I am pretty freaked about it.
By next year i hope to have saved up enough to do a feature film (very very low budget) if I cant get funding from the Canadian government. But I am more worried about this year honestly. If I can survive this year and impress them I know that I will probably make it into next year working for the same people.
The fact is that i have to wrack up 1,150 overtime hours within 20 weeks to meet my goal. Even with that goal its not even reassuring that I will meet the amount I want to have saved by the end of my term at this job. Taking there will be times where I gorge myself on stuff (movies, concerts, CDs and what not). Trying not to think about it too negatively because either way its still gonna be a long shot since I know they will never be giving overtime hours all of the time and not always to a guy like me (unless I can prove myself).
Plus I got SFU to think about what if they called halfway through this month asking for an interview I can get one during work hours. As stupid as it sounds this job is more important to me than getting into SFU and how ironic that by the time I would be accepted into an establishment that would have rejected me years prior (due to bad grades but now since I am over 23 I can get easier since I am an "adult". Mind you I thrown my app here without knowing I was gonna have this video game job that I wasn't thinking about the consequences either I just wanted to get the job and have a fighting chance at SFU, if this video game thing fails and I get into SFu then everything is not lost just bad or if I keep the job and get into SFU that might cramp my chances of getting work with them again in the future maybe. But I had to take the chance of applying to both. It's just a matter of seeing what happens after April. Knowing me I will just be rejected by SFU, if that is the case then I don't really care as long as I keep this job because that means if I am good enough I can hope to stay longer than my contract which is what worries me since my contract goes over what will be the start of my SFU job and I don't like breaking contracts. Its sort of funny that the employer has the greater right to break contracts than the employee but that is life.
Failing at both will result in being totally fucked.
I might have to buy more melatonin since I have a feeling it will be back to the four hour or maybe 5 hour sleep nights. At least this time the work wont be as intense as it was last year, that is the good thing since its all just sitting at a desk and everything and watch a screen.
Again however my plan is to make a short film sometime this year, then another one next year possibly to get my name known to telefilm and get a chance hopefully.
For once I need luck to be on my side, too bad its usually the opposite, the last 3 years have been one bad news beat after another.
I spent the morning just spinning my head with the budget for this year and I am pretty freaked about it.
By next year i hope to have saved up enough to do a feature film (very very low budget) if I cant get funding from the Canadian government. But I am more worried about this year honestly. If I can survive this year and impress them I know that I will probably make it into next year working for the same people.
The fact is that i have to wrack up 1,150 overtime hours within 20 weeks to meet my goal. Even with that goal its not even reassuring that I will meet the amount I want to have saved by the end of my term at this job. Taking there will be times where I gorge myself on stuff (movies, concerts, CDs and what not). Trying not to think about it too negatively because either way its still gonna be a long shot since I know they will never be giving overtime hours all of the time and not always to a guy like me (unless I can prove myself).
Plus I got SFU to think about what if they called halfway through this month asking for an interview I can get one during work hours. As stupid as it sounds this job is more important to me than getting into SFU and how ironic that by the time I would be accepted into an establishment that would have rejected me years prior (due to bad grades but now since I am over 23 I can get easier since I am an "adult". Mind you I thrown my app here without knowing I was gonna have this video game job that I wasn't thinking about the consequences either I just wanted to get the job and have a fighting chance at SFU, if this video game thing fails and I get into SFu then everything is not lost just bad or if I keep the job and get into SFU that might cramp my chances of getting work with them again in the future maybe. But I had to take the chance of applying to both. It's just a matter of seeing what happens after April. Knowing me I will just be rejected by SFU, if that is the case then I don't really care as long as I keep this job because that means if I am good enough I can hope to stay longer than my contract which is what worries me since my contract goes over what will be the start of my SFU job and I don't like breaking contracts. Its sort of funny that the employer has the greater right to break contracts than the employee but that is life.
Failing at both will result in being totally fucked.
I might have to buy more melatonin since I have a feeling it will be back to the four hour or maybe 5 hour sleep nights. At least this time the work wont be as intense as it was last year, that is the good thing since its all just sitting at a desk and everything and watch a screen.
Again however my plan is to make a short film sometime this year, then another one next year possibly to get my name known to telefilm and get a chance hopefully.
For once I need luck to be on my side, too bad its usually the opposite, the last 3 years have been one bad news beat after another.