Dealmakers.
You can sing, write, jump, hold a person's interest for longer than thirty seconds, roll the perfect cigarette, attract attention from those you seek it from. But can you postpone your selfish ways?
Being at the bottom of the food chain is probably a stage that pretty much everyone has to go through. It doesn't mean you will never rise above the other maggots slushing around in the fisherman's pocket all bleating "Nessun Dorma" and swallowing swords. You simply have to be the one who wriggles free of the hook and slowly but surely bleeds it's way onto the riverbank where another thousand "gifted" people are waiting to squish you.
Are you a charity case? No. Do you have what it takes to sit back and wait for your turn to audition without blurting out the occasional note in order to display your talents like a flustered peacock? Your ambition needs to remain strong but never on show. Desperation killed the other maggots, they had no energy left to crawl off the hook and were swallowed by the big fish.
So you're left with your confidence, which when you are young is the most vital thing you can have. Many people try to knock it away from you so you squander and fail, many will turn their backs in disgust or even jealousy. If you can learn to take the hits and stay standing you will most definitely make it. I want to believe that I am sitting where I am now because I broke everyone elses keyboard tapping fingers in order to make it, but in reality I just stood by what talent i believed I had and let others fight around me until they were hoarse, then rose from my chair and walked over them.
How to rise,
1. Do not under any circumstance over-portray your quality.
This means not putting endless amounts of pointless rhetoric on your facebook page or stating every little achievement. Desperation is ruins. If you are constantly updating every little input into your life then those interested in you will know exactly what you are doing. It's like telling your chess partner your next move before you've even made it. This applies across the board. People writing huge responses on trivial matters are just as likely to gain attention if not more as people writing about politics and social morality issues. It's about the way you write or say things, not what you say.
2. Travel,
There is no better statement to put on your CV than claiming you have experience with whatever your auditioning or interviewing for is in competition with. Models with Storm compete with Elite etc. There are the banks, the law firms and huge TV industries who are all in competition with opposing compainies. If you can say you have worked with and have a reference from someone they are in competition with, it's the perfect bate. Dear Capital FM "I've had 6 months work experience with Radio 1 news teams and have a recommendation and a place offer for the next year." Big cheese companies massage their ego's by pinching the hot topics floating around the place.
3. Make it Big.
The Higher aim, the more you will fall.....However at least you have a chance to wrap your fingers around a wrung not that far down and drag yourself back up no? It's all well and dandy getting a fancy law degree but when you have less courtroom experience than the homeless guy shooting up next to you, then you're nothing. Aim for the magic circle, get chewed up and spat out as a young solicitor and work in the suburns of london then puncture in once again. If you start by being a tea boy, you will be croissant maker after 10 years...Hardly worth it. This is not the 1900's where you can walk in with nothing and end up owning the place. Throw yourself directly at the one person, don't spread your time whoring away with all the deputy editors and downwards, choose your figure in the hierarchy and shoot.
It's getting both easier and harder to become rich. Dotcom millionaires are in abundance, it's a lifestyle which has many a computer science geek throbbing at the site of Zucky Zuckerberg but the number of job oppurtunites are still only slowly rising. There is nothing wrong with hard graft and working your way up slowly in the family pie business. Trust me kids, one time in your life someone will open a door, while everyone else keeps it open with a boot at the foot of it, walk briskly and smilingly over them.
Mr Lear.
Late night typing means no post editting tonight so sorry for any typos.
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