Schoolin'

Sometimes I think arts and humanities degrees get a bad wrap. A recent comment over on my blog fired me up and led me to write an entire post on why a theater degree is not useless, and in all honesty, for me, a theater degree was not only totally useful, it’s been the catalyst to my crazy, awesome gypsy life.   Let me throw out a few disclaimers here. I think there are people who have, or find, big, hairy, audacious goals and dreams. They feel it deep in their soul that pain

During the time I was in college, I had three student worker jobs. Throughout all three years I was an undergrad, I wrote for the school newspaper as a freelancer and occasionally took photographs for them (at a whopping $5 a photo and $10 an article – if they even got published). Since that wasn't really enough cash to pay for much of anything, I also worked in the school scene shop and as a stagehand at the campus performing arts center – both of which were jobs that helped

Conventional wisdom says to go to school, major in something reliable that will make you lots of money, find a boy, settle down and stay there forever. Recently a commenter of my blog left the following note for me: I never understand why parents always seem willing to let kids invest in all these exotic majors – like French Literature, or Theater, or whatever. There is such a small job market for jobs related to these fields… For my youngest, I have made it abundantly clear