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.I found more of it on the film side ofthings.There are still many people thatwere doing quite well and holding it alltogether, but there seemed a bit of a raggededge to the whole thing that creates maritalproblems.Sohail: What do you consider the best and theworst part of the freelance world?Jeremiah: The best part is having freedom.If I havesomething that I want to do in my personallife, and somebody calls me up to work, Ican simply say that I m already booked andT h e Ar t o f Wo r k i n g i n Y o u r Gr e e n Z o n e 146 they should look for somebody else.So Ihave the freedom that people with a full-time job don t have unless they want to useup their leave days.So that s wonderful.Ican take my holidays whenever I want.Sohail: And what is the worst part of this kind ofbusiness?Jeremiah: The insecurity, not knowing if I am going tohave enough money to pay the mortgage orwhatever at slower times of the year having to be responsible for things likecollecting my own taxes.It is alsounfortunate that freelance workers have ahard time getting bank loans because bankslike people with steady incomes and stablejobs.It is hard to convince them that youwill get regular contracts.Sohail: Looking back at where you started twentyyears ago and where you are with theknowledge, experience and the wisdom thatyou have now, if you had it to do overagain, would there be anything that youwould do that would be different?Jeremiah: Absolutely.If I could take this mind nowand put it into my seventeen- year-old body,I would have stayed in school andcontinued on through university andbecome a professional of some kind.Iwould then have the liberty of choosingwhere I wanted to live, I d have a betterfinancial situation, and I d be doingsomething a little bit more worthwhile thanDr.K.Sohai l and Bette Davi s RN MN 147 I m doing now.The direction that I took was based onan immature love of sound.I used to loveevery minute of it.But then it became aroutine and lost its charm.My father usedto love airplanes and flying, but when hebecame a pilot he lost interest after a fewyears because the love turned into a job.Hebegan to feel like a sophisticated limousinedriver.By the end of his career he had lostall his passion.So one has to be careful what path tofollow; if you follow something you love,you have to be careful how are you going tofeel about it twenty or thirty years down theroad.Sohail: Are you suggesting that people have to becareful before they make their passion anddream into their job?Jeremiah: For some people it never becomes aproblem.They love it all their lives, but thenthere are others who lose their passion.Ijust found that for me personally it justbecame boring and there s no challengenow.I m not learning much any more.Sohail: It has become more of a routine kind ofthing.Jeremiah: Yes, it is routine now.Sohail: Although you re good at it, you still don tfind it intellectually challenging or creativelystimulating.T h e Ar t o f Wo r k i n g i n Y o u r Gr e e n Z o n e 148 Jeremiah: Exactly, that s exactly what s gone on in thelast few years.The more experienced youare, the fewer the surprises.Sohail: Why don t you pursue somethingcompletely different from what you havebeen doing?Jeremiah: I have been entertaining that idea sinceabout 1989 about the last thirteen,fourteen years.I ve wanted to make a majorshift but once you re out there working andyou have responsibilities like mortgages andchildren, you have to keep on making anincome.It s hard to go back into the studentmode, get retrained, and start again, on topof handling of all of your responsibilities.Sothat s another aspect of feeling trapped.Sohail: What would be your advice to teenagerswho love music and want to make it theircareer and also work in their Green Zone?Jeremiah: That s a very difficult question to answerbecause I just know what happened to mein my experience.I do quite regularly meetup with young people who are just comingout of colleges, so when I m talking tothem, I do suggest that they stay in schoollong enough to train in something that theywould enjoy for thirty years and not getbored with after a few years.But I wouldn tadvise somebody not to go into the mediajust because of the experiences that I vehad [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.I found more of it on the film side ofthings.There are still many people thatwere doing quite well and holding it alltogether, but there seemed a bit of a raggededge to the whole thing that creates maritalproblems.Sohail: What do you consider the best and theworst part of the freelance world?Jeremiah: The best part is having freedom.If I havesomething that I want to do in my personallife, and somebody calls me up to work, Ican simply say that I m already booked andT h e Ar t o f Wo r k i n g i n Y o u r Gr e e n Z o n e 146 they should look for somebody else.So Ihave the freedom that people with a full-time job don t have unless they want to useup their leave days.So that s wonderful.Ican take my holidays whenever I want.Sohail: And what is the worst part of this kind ofbusiness?Jeremiah: The insecurity, not knowing if I am going tohave enough money to pay the mortgage orwhatever at slower times of the year having to be responsible for things likecollecting my own taxes.It is alsounfortunate that freelance workers have ahard time getting bank loans because bankslike people with steady incomes and stablejobs.It is hard to convince them that youwill get regular contracts.Sohail: Looking back at where you started twentyyears ago and where you are with theknowledge, experience and the wisdom thatyou have now, if you had it to do overagain, would there be anything that youwould do that would be different?Jeremiah: Absolutely.If I could take this mind nowand put it into my seventeen- year-old body,I would have stayed in school andcontinued on through university andbecome a professional of some kind.Iwould then have the liberty of choosingwhere I wanted to live, I d have a betterfinancial situation, and I d be doingsomething a little bit more worthwhile thanDr.K.Sohai l and Bette Davi s RN MN 147 I m doing now.The direction that I took was based onan immature love of sound.I used to loveevery minute of it.But then it became aroutine and lost its charm.My father usedto love airplanes and flying, but when hebecame a pilot he lost interest after a fewyears because the love turned into a job.Hebegan to feel like a sophisticated limousinedriver.By the end of his career he had lostall his passion.So one has to be careful what path tofollow; if you follow something you love,you have to be careful how are you going tofeel about it twenty or thirty years down theroad.Sohail: Are you suggesting that people have to becareful before they make their passion anddream into their job?Jeremiah: For some people it never becomes aproblem.They love it all their lives, but thenthere are others who lose their passion.Ijust found that for me personally it justbecame boring and there s no challengenow.I m not learning much any more.Sohail: It has become more of a routine kind ofthing.Jeremiah: Yes, it is routine now.Sohail: Although you re good at it, you still don tfind it intellectually challenging or creativelystimulating.T h e Ar t o f Wo r k i n g i n Y o u r Gr e e n Z o n e 148 Jeremiah: Exactly, that s exactly what s gone on in thelast few years.The more experienced youare, the fewer the surprises.Sohail: Why don t you pursue somethingcompletely different from what you havebeen doing?Jeremiah: I have been entertaining that idea sinceabout 1989 about the last thirteen,fourteen years.I ve wanted to make a majorshift but once you re out there working andyou have responsibilities like mortgages andchildren, you have to keep on making anincome.It s hard to go back into the studentmode, get retrained, and start again, on topof handling of all of your responsibilities.Sothat s another aspect of feeling trapped.Sohail: What would be your advice to teenagerswho love music and want to make it theircareer and also work in their Green Zone?Jeremiah: That s a very difficult question to answerbecause I just know what happened to mein my experience.I do quite regularly meetup with young people who are just comingout of colleges, so when I m talking tothem, I do suggest that they stay in schoollong enough to train in something that theywould enjoy for thirty years and not getbored with after a few years.But I wouldn tadvise somebody not to go into the mediajust because of the experiences that I vehad [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]