March 17, 2013
Where will you be in five years? PosterChild asks an interesting question and I’d love to have everybody’s thoughts on it.
Brian and I make five-year plans with our business. Actually, we’re probably due to sit down and reassess our plan again sometime soon. It’s a fun thing to do but it’s also important for figuring out what we want next, where we want to be, how we want to get there. It’s different than when I was in college and five years away seemed unimaginable. Nor can I imagine where I’ll be in five years on a personal level.
But what if you try? Where will everybody be in 2013? Not wishful thinking (though of course that plays into it). Where do you honestly think you will be? I’d love for CC and PC to weigh in on this but also I’d love to hear from our readers.
I have a calendar with this saying on it…”The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” I’m trying my best to invent an incredible future. I hope to be working at something that fills my heart.
I don’t know, and I am afraid to guess.
When asked this question over a year ago at scholarship interviews and BFA portfolio reviews, I always said “in grad school, getting my MFA in costume design.” It did the trick then, and I am pretty sure it’s what I honestly believed I would be doing. Now I know I need to work for a couple years first, I know a lot of the grad programs are looking for real-world experience in their applicants. It shows a certain amount of dedication to the field I suppose, and it adds padding to the portfolio and resume. Of course, I don’t know what my dedication is to the field anymore, which frightens me. Before college I was so sure of myself, so passionate about my art and convinced it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I know everyone’s supposed to question their major in the first year of college, and I’m hoping the nagging feeling of “this isn’t right” was just a freshman thing and will go away when I start doing more wonderful things and working with more amazing people (and hopefully landing a killer internship for the summer) next year. I’m still nervous though, and afraid to say where I think I’ll be in five years, because I feel like I’ll be making myself a promise I might not be able to keep.
…end rant.
If I stay where I’m at? Hopefully working in New York or Chicago or LA (hah! I guess I’m talking about my wildest dreams), sewing things, wardrobe crewing, and doing the bitchwork required to climb my chosen ladder. I suppose. Or maybe working for a regional theatre somewhere, maybe designing my own shows! That would be cool.
Quite seriously, I’d still love to be in the 5-year bachelor’s degree I’m currently taking. Even if my course has an 80% failure rate. When people ask for my course, I say I’m in so-and-so… for now. I really should be more positive. It’s like I’m setting myself up for failure.
I’ll be getting ready to start college, studying who knows what. It’s an interesting question, but impossible to find an answer to.
Hmmmm…. I will be in my second year of college at that point. I will probably be living in Salem, NC attending NCSA, working part time at the regional theater near there screaming “NO! I WILL NOT HEM YOUR PANTS!!!” And while I really don’t want to be apart of the stage crew, I know that it’s always good to have technical stuff on you resume….. Even though it sucks. I will also probably be working at a little bookstore or coffee shop on campus trying to make money to pay tuition because my parents wanted me to be a lawyer. (Screw THAT!) I will be majoring in Musical Theater and finding a collaborator to help me write my first musical. You know, things that every teenager in South Louisiana thinks she’ll be doing in five years…..
And I digress……