Job Listings

[lululuvsol]

I can't sleep, my stomach is acting weird, oye. At least I know it's not a gall bladder attack!

Sometimes when I can't sleep I look at jobs on Craigslist.com just to see what's out there and "prepare" myself. I started looking at things in L.A. thinking maybe it'd be an adventure, whatever. The L.A. jobs scare me. I guess I am of the opinion that there's SO many people in the L.A. area, SO many companies, that there's just more things that could go wrong. Companies starting and ending all the time, a faster employee turn-around rate I am sure, and simply more illegal/funny-business going on to watch out for. Then I started looking in Philadelphia and it all just seemed so much more...safe. Maybe that's telling me something (other than that I am a wuss and not ready to move to L.A. right now).

My two favorite job listings:

Audience Work - Quick $$$
So, Carson Daly's show is so unpopular they have to pay people to sit in the audience sometimes. Oh man, this cracks me up for some reason. Hah.

Blogger/Adventurer Needed
Who knew you could be paid to road trip and blog! I mean, hell, you mean my blogging obsession could actually be a PLUS for some jobs? I want that job!

Comments

[verucagonff.livejournal.com]

I want that job! I'll fight you for it!

[enna.livejournal.com]

Haha, well go for it because I will be in California during that time anyway. But yeah, it sounds like a lot of fun.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you're under 30 and reasonably attractive, you can pull down $15-20k a year before taxes sitting in audiences.

Seriously.

[enna.livejournal.com]

That's crazy. I guess I believe it though. There's so many shows with audiences I can't believe that 200 people a day really want to sit in on all of those. Then there's others where you have to get tickets months in advance to get in! Crazy.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

well, yes and no.

paid audience usually only goes to shows that are pilots, new (first season) and don't have a following, or otherwise not especially popular. even at that they'll try to entice people by handing out tix for free (usually in shopping malls or outside tourist spots like the Chinese Theatre) and occasionally even charging a nominal fee to be in the audience for a taping of a popular performer (we had to pay $3 a head to get tix for the taping of Caroline Rhea's recent Bravo special, which was totally worth it cuz it was a great theater and she went for almost 3 hours).

the ones you have to get in advance are only if you want guaranteed seats for a given day. say you want to get into Leno - most days if you just show up at NBC early (say 10ish) you can get in. But if you know for a fact that you're travelling to LA on October 9th and *must* see Jay Leno *that*day*, then you better reserve as early as possible.