Dream Job

People often ask what your “dream job” is. Truth be told, I really don’t wish that I had to do anything for livelihood, but in the purely hypothetical world where I suddenly inherit $10 billion and can do whatever I want for the rest of my life, I would still want to produce and put on shows and movies and TV shows, and just cast myself and whomever else I want and just be able to explore stories that I find meaningful and that bring me joy and satisfaction.

Right now, I’m about to leave my job as a personal assistant, which I’m leaving for a number of reasons, but one of them is that I wish I had more time to actually pursue the creative projects that I want. Whenever I see shows on Broadway or even when I went up to Cornell and saw my friends in a show for the theater department, I had such envy because I wished that I was doing a show, and I haven’t been able to audition for anything because my assistant job has required me to be very available.

So, now that I’ve been looking for a new day job, I was trying to come up with the ideal day job for me in this moment (other than the REAL ideal, which is just getting my big break and becoming the next Florence Pugh and not having to worry about other employment). I’m honestly at a point where I want to make things happen for myself, seeing other theatrical peers doing the same, including my brother, and I would love to produce a show somehow in the next year. So if I could have a day job that allowed me to have coworkers (which was another difficulty of my current job where my only other coworker was my boss) and either had hybrid scheduling or more work towards the evening/another weird time of day so I can do my appointments and then spend my day working on creative things, that would be amazing.

Another factor is in what field I would want to work. I would obviously love to do something in a creative field, especially in the theater/TV/film industry or in fashion, both of which I studied in college and love a lot, but at this point I’m not married to those as long as it’s not going to have me on 0% battery at the end of the day (yet another difficulty with my current position).

Even if I could find the “perfect” day job that fits all of these criteria, I feel like submitting to online job applications is like throwing my resume and cover letter into a black hole and hoping something will come of it, so I’m trying to network and use any friends-of-cousins’-neighbors’-dogs that I can to tap into different companies.

My fingers and toes are crossed, and I have no idea what is coming next for me, but I’m kind of excited at the prospect of the unknown and what’s waiting for me in the new year. Here’s to the future!

Thanks for reading!

Holly