First Job Interview!!!

So Amy had her first job interview today! It was with a children's puppet theatre called The Shadow Box Theatre (shadowbox.org, I think). It went really, really well. Turns out the woman interviewing me also founded the company forty years ago, she's pretty cool. They work a lot like Whitman, very hands on and collaborative, with everybody doing a little bit of everything, from front of house to tech stuff to performing! I might have to go back and have a performance audition, which makes me nervous as performing is one of my weaker skills nowadays cuz I'm so out of practice. But if I may say so myself, they seemed pretty darn enthusiastic about me, so perhaps I won't have to do that. 

To be honest, the woman who technically interviewed me, the founder, was a little hippy-dippy for my taste (and this is me we're talking about, so you can guess just how hippy-dippy that is!!) but I felt really connected to all of the other production people I met, like the Assistant Director and the Technical Director and the head stage manager (who was an intern two years ago, most of their permanent hires start as interns!!). It felt like they were really on my team and kind of pushing me as their choice, but the hippy-dippy lady was being cautious. Which makes perfect sense, really. They said they'll let me know next week, but I'm feeling good about my chances!

The only bummer is that they're a super-non-profit theatre, so all their interns make NY minimum wage (5 bucks an hour, yuck) for about 20-25 hours a week. There will definitely need to be a second job involved, but because their work is all during school hours (a lot of their main business is school tours) the second job will have to work around that. Oh being a grown up... so exciting and yet so complicated!

Love to all

ps--

I nearly forgot!! This morning they SHUT DOWN THE SUBWAY!!! There was no A-train, and I was standing there waiting for 45 minutes before they bothered to tell us. I would have definitely been late if I'd tried to make it on the bus or walked to another subway, so I had to take a cab to my interview. I use the term "cab" lightly... the weather was horrible today, and the two guys in the car who picked me up were definitely just taking advantage of the increased number of people who needed cabs. I rode next to a car seat, and I WAY overpaid, but I was so worried about missing my first interview I couldn't think of anything else to do! Chalk it up to experience, I suppose.