The morning after
Mar. 8th, 2002 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI was up until 2:30 last night. Erin had to get a proposal off (so that the council will give the film she's working on some money) by fax this morning by 9:30, (having been only asked for it yesterday afternoon), so she came in at 9-ish, took a 20 minute break to eat with me and then got back into it.
At 2:00 she finally got it all together, all 20 pages of it (a list of everyone working on the film, along with their experience, a breakdown of eveything they planned to spend money on, with justifications for each one and the actual film publicity document, thankfully already written) and started printing it off, so I wandered through and help sort things into piles, and generally try to keep her going.
And then at 6:45 she got up so that she could be in Edinburgh at 8:45 to fax it through, meet someone from the film at 9:30 and go to an interview at 11:00. I got to go back to sleep (well, except for waking back up at 9 and 10 and 11 for various disturbances).
The interview was baffling to Erin for a variety of reasons, partially lack of sleep, but mostly down to the sheer 'blah'-ness of the questions "describe a problem you've overcome", "what was a project you're proud of?", "When have you successfully used teamwork?". She feels miserable about the fact that she sees generic people give generic answers and walk into generic jobs like this, but as much as she tries, she just can't be generic.
Personally, I'm hoping that the film production work and journalism offers a route into something more permanent. That's where she wants to be, and she's slowly getting there, but the process is totally soul-destroying.
At 2:00 she finally got it all together, all 20 pages of it (a list of everyone working on the film, along with their experience, a breakdown of eveything they planned to spend money on, with justifications for each one and the actual film publicity document, thankfully already written) and started printing it off, so I wandered through and help sort things into piles, and generally try to keep her going.
And then at 6:45 she got up so that she could be in Edinburgh at 8:45 to fax it through, meet someone from the film at 9:30 and go to an interview at 11:00. I got to go back to sleep (well, except for waking back up at 9 and 10 and 11 for various disturbances).
The interview was baffling to Erin for a variety of reasons, partially lack of sleep, but mostly down to the sheer 'blah'-ness of the questions "describe a problem you've overcome", "what was a project you're proud of?", "When have you successfully used teamwork?". She feels miserable about the fact that she sees generic people give generic answers and walk into generic jobs like this, but as much as she tries, she just can't be generic.
Personally, I'm hoping that the film production work and journalism offers a route into something more permanent. That's where she wants to be, and she's slowly getting there, but the process is totally soul-destroying.
