Reply to What would you tell your child if they want to be an actor?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "What would you tell your child if they want to be an actor?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That I love them and will come to all their plays, and also that they need a day job, a plan, and to be very careful with money and make cautious choices because it's a hard business to break into.

But I wouldn't discourage them. There are working actors out there. And I don't just mean waiters who do plays sometimes, but people who make a living acting who aren't super famous. Most of them don't get rich but you can do that for a living.

And I wouldn't mind if they majored in drama in college. People freak out about a degree like that but it's fine, even if their acting career doesn't work out. It's fine. You have to complete your general requirements no matter what you major in, and you can be a perfectly well-rounded and employable person even if you don't major in business or engineering. I actually think business/communications are wasted majors for most people because so much of what you learn in those majors can be learned more effectively on the job, and it deprives a person of a chance to gain deep knowledge in an actual subject area. Like you could major in drama, ultimately wind up in marketing or advertising, and your deep knowledge of Shakespeare, joke structure in comedy, and mid 20th century cinema will wind up being WAY more useful than a seminar where you learned to make really good power point decks.[/quote]

+1 Your major doesn't really matter in college.

And, have you ever met one of these folks in real life? Those who are devoted to their art? If so, you know you can't really talk them out of pursuing their dreams.  So help them see some practical uses and jobs and choices, but in the end, it's their life (assuming you have the money or they are helping pay).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics