Highlights:
⭐️ Keeping your investments;
⭐️ The protections of a union and a bit of the history of projection designers being accepted into their union, USA 829;
⭐️ Freelancing versus being employed at a production company;
⭐️ Making sure you recommend projects to the people you’re working with. Because when you don’t, it is very noticeable.
Key takeaways:
⭐️ Zak mentioned the theme park gigs were the ones that are the most well compensated. I didn’t follow up on that and wish I had. Hopefully Zak will be back one day to explain that. But take note, he’s done a lot of Broadway shows and yet his answer was… the theme park work;
⭐️ Interviewing for Book or Mormon but deciding to cut projections. Ouch!
⭐️ Unions - crazy to think that 2009 was the first projections union contract on Broadway. And also, Rock of Ages, a show I know well, closed on Broadway in 2015 which means it has been gone for 11 years, which besides making me feel old because I use it as an anchor point of my life, it shows how time keeps moving, and so few Broadway shows get the honor of staying relevant as pop cultural references;
⭐️ Don’t sell investments early! I know life happens, so obviously it’s a moot point because if you have to sell, you have to sell. But investing is really best when you invest, and never di-vest. Though I will say that Zak mentioned it was Apple stock he regrets selling. BUT… I will say that general financial advice is to NOT own individual stocks. Individual stocks I support divesting from BECAUSE, when I’ve learned by investing for the Artistic Finance 6k episodes is that individual stocks can just disappear. Whereas, an index fund doesn’t disappear because if a stock within it disappears, it gets replaced with a new one.
But anyway, stay invested!
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