Posted 15 June 2008 - 10:11 PM
Could neither of you previous two posters read the other "guest" post? She didn't mention £3000 a week. She didn't mention Jodie. She was talking in the plural, re PEOPLE in the industry in general to start with, and then referred it down to the PART TIME work indulged in by the obviously mollycoddled stage performers who she obviously doesn't seen to think know what real work is! Or is she so unimaginative and/or so lacking in understanding, that she thinks £3000 a week is normal? The other guest poster who followed with "Well said, Emma, agree with all that. Its not lamentable to suggest that £3000 pds per week is somewhat over the top when lots of people at the moment are struggling to pay bills, find homes etc", apparently does. Because I didn't say that. And if you are going to disagree or even criticise, then at least bother to know what it is you are talking about and to do it accurately.
And just for the record this PART TIME work was criticised by a teacher, who seems to think she has a right to do that when she gets how many weeks holiday a year? And this also from a teacher who is in long term employment, who doesn't have to take short term contracts not knowing when, or if, the next one will materialise with all the accompanying stress that entails. This from someone who doesn't have to work as a waitress half the time, or whatever, to make ends meet when the "ridiculously high" (?) salary from a previous job doesn't last to the next. She doesn't have to live from hand to mouth most of the time. She doesn't have to do a job that precludes a normal social life because of antisocial hours. She doesn't have to work over the holiday periods like Christmas. She doesn't have to expend hugely more energy in a few hours than a teacher would have to in a week. She doesn't have to maintain the level of fitness required to be able to do that.
The payments made to Hollywood stars and to television names are just insane, but the reality of life for the majority of actors is that they STRUGGLE! To be so unimaginative that you can't even think what it might be like to NOT have a sinecure of a job is just shameful!
I have long thought that it would be a good idea to somehow oblige everyone to have to work for at least 5 years in some self employed capacity. I have been on the receiving end of the most ridiculous attitudes too many times. Those working in sinecure jobs, with a regular salary coming in at the end of every month that you can rely on, should know how much tougher the alternative is and what the real world is like when you don't have that.
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