{"id":4675,"date":"2009-11-17T01:34:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T07:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:15:51","slug":"how-to-have-a-career-in-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/how-to-have-a-career-in-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Career in the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get many emails from people asking variations of the question &#8220;How do I start a career in the arts?&#8221;. It comes from singers, writers, hip hop producers &#8211; all people who perform and create. They are starting out, they have a drive, they think they have what it takes but they are not sure of where the road is.<\/p>\n<p>I will tell you the secret. And it&#8217;s very simple. I cannot tell you if you will succeed, or if you are any good, or even if you should. But here&#8217;s the secret:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This advice was attributed to Carol Burnett and was told to me by my Mother when I was around 21 years old. That&#8217;s my memory of it. I can&#8217;t verify the facts. But it&#8217;s what I did. Did it work? Well, I think so. I can&#8217;t really judge myself. But I would do it again.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Step One: Take every job you can until you are booked solid. Don&#8217;t worry if it pays or even if it&#8217;s what you want to do. Just fill your schedule.<\/li>\n<li>Step Two: Once you are booked solid, start replacing the unpaid jobs with jobs that pay.<\/li>\n<li>Step Three: Protect your paid jobs so that you do your best work. Replace the lesser paying jobs with the better paying ones.<\/li>\n<li>Step Four: Amongst your paid jobs, start just taking the ones that you enjoy, are good at, or pay the most. Your choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not being a smartass here. I&#8217;m serious. The nuances of this journey are up to you. There are many ways to achieve what you want; this is just one way.<\/p>\n<p>The other obvious choice to make is to find people that are doing what you want to do, then find out what THEY did.<\/p>\n<p>And many times in retrospect I think it might be true it doesn&#8217;t matter what you do. You will do what you do, and there are many different ways to get there. Don&#8217;t be so hard on yourself and just go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get many emails from people asking variations of the question &#8220;How do I start a career in the arts?&#8221;. It comes from singers, writers, hip hop producers &#8211; all people who perform and create. They are starting out, they have a drive, they think they have what it takes but they are not sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1dp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4693,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}