P A R T 8
WORK
After your period of training and self-development comes the difficult transition to paid employment. Even with top-notch abilities in craft and reliability, you will probably, like most in the arts, have to struggle for a subsistence living until you gradually get known and established. It may be helpful to know what experts have to relate.
For these two final chapters, I consulted two specialists. Tod Lending, as an Academy-nominated director of many Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) films (nomadicpix.com), is an old hand at writing proposals for grants, foundations, and broadcasters. The other is the career development specialist Dirk Matthews of Columbia College Chicago. During his decades of career counseling, he has supported ...
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