In the movie “Whatever Works” we meet a woman, which is from
the south, who has gone to New York City to find her daughter. Once she finds
her, she moves in with her and starts to experience the city. Time passes and
the woman discovers that she has a passion for art and because of that she ends
up opening her own art exhibit. From what I saw, I believe that the reason she
had gone her entire life not knowing that she wanted to pursue that passion
because she didn’t know she had it. In her life in the south, she was a
conservative, Christian, married woman and I don’t think she saw her life
outside of that. But once going to New York and seeing a different type of
world and talking with people who were actually in the field, she saw that it
was something she wanted to do. I believe that her passion came out when she
was surrounded by the culture and the people that made it possible for her to
achieve what she wanted and she chose to follow that.
If I apply how art has changed my life, it’s not something
like what happened in the film but I did choose to pursue my career path
through a form of art. That art was music. In high school, I didn’t know what I
wanted to do but I did know that I liked music. Another thing I liked was going
to concerts to experience the music live. It was a completely different
experience for me when I was at concerts and when thinking what I wanted to do
as a career, I thought something with music would be a way for me to actually
love what I would do. I would always see the giant mixer boards they would have
at concerts and wondered what someone had to do in order to be able to operate
something like that. I thought that would be the perfect job for me because I’d
be doing something with music and being part of a concert, which are two things
I still love today.
To get to that dream job, I decided to go to school and
learn as much as I could about it because I had no idea of how any of it
worked. As I look at myself now, I believe I have gone through a lot to get to
that job I want. I feel like I’m still far away from it but closer than I have
ever been. I am currently working on call as a stagehand, which is a related
field to what I want to do. This job gives me a good opportunity to network,
because the company I work with has a lot of high level clients in the city.
Some of these include casinos like: Bellagio, MGM, The Orleans, Mandalay Bay,
and many more. With the experience I’m getting from that job, even though it’s
not every day, I feel that within a few years of graduating from school I will
be able to get my dream job.
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