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Your feelings are so intense now that you could truly benefit from spending at least some of the day in silent contemplation. You may not have the luxury of being able to go on a retreat, but you should at least try to cultivate a spiritual atmosphere in some way. Ritual can enhance your day, so make time for quiet meditation or get outside into a natural setting that is good for your soul.

By Rick Levine

Sunday, August 19, 2007

for those of you that know what is going on, i think you can agree this is dead on..

for those of you that don’t …. email me .

it is slavery..

i talked to another friend who was a TV producer .. she says the job i’m doing , is called an “assistant inline editor”

going rate is like $24-$70 hr.

I’m at my wits end in this “intern ship” and i use the term loosely becuse sat this point its ‘ more like slavery…

i was told 3 weeks ago that i was being kept and I’m now “contract”
but nothing has changed I’m still doing 36-60 hr a week for only $100 wk. which is crazy.

i get blown off or pushed aside in a lot of things i am literally doing everything at this startup ,

( i’ve done a commercial spot, 2 promos, set up his networking, Google bizness , let him use MY server to host client files because his is not configured correctly.. made a label mock up for another project and he has me use MY personal email to mail clients .. )
but i don’t think this is right.

I have no written contract and I’m tired of being lead to believe I’m getting one . I’m in limbo between intern and employee, and in the past 2 weeks their has been no visible effort to solidify what my position is , yet he will brag about my work and tell people I’m staff…. but i don’t see it reflected at my end , in either compensation or paperwork..

I’ve tried to just be quite and keep my head down but it’s getting to the point i can’t make rent and I’m being given work on projects for other clients that are outside…. WAY outside what my understood task was.

( AVID intern, if you could call it that i don’t feel I’m learning any thing NEW i took the AVID class and I”M training the new guy , while my boss is taking the credit for cuts i honestly don’t really like and know in my heart will have to be redone because they simply do not fit the mood of the documentary.)

i no longer feel like this is going to go anywhere and i can’t keep hearing just one more week….. then we get the new contract . BS.

I have sent out resumes to other studios …
heck the runners that work in the studio across the hall
get 10$ hr.
i need to completely re-think my strategy here
can you help me .? is this normal?
or am i totally getting screwed here?