Where are you all?

There is usually a drop in postings on this site during the Christmas period, and it picks up again in February. This year though, it feels as though nobody at all is posting - even us regulars seem to be posting less and less. Where are you all? I know I've been a bit busy (but then I'm always busy, and still manage to post)... is it simply busy-ness, or is it that people don't have anything interesting to say? Or perhaps we need another controversy, like Blackbox etc, to come along... Don't tell me there's nothing going on out there - there's plenty!! ... So I offer up a topic of question - I'm currently helping a girl get into puppetry, by introducing her around the place, inviting her to view rehearsals, sending her info, etc. It's the first time I've done something like this (though it does fit within my normal activities of helping fellow theatre people), and I'm just wondering how many people go out of their way to help newbies - and how many people have been turned down/accepted by those they admire/ask for help. Any comments? Na

The amount of people who do work experience programs - whether through schools or other sources - and want to take a place in a company of some sort for the program is amazing. But not many companies take people and when they do, like you mentioned Na, they usually get the jobs of filing, cleaning up etc because no one is willing to take the time to teach them anything useful. I can bet we all know how to make a coffee. Why spend a week doing something you already know? It's completely pointless. I for one spent the month before my work experience ringing around, emailing etc trying to find a company (i will not mention names) but no one was willing to give me anything - except for one who were sorry but they already had three work experience kids there that week and couldn't really take more on. So I ended up teaching yr5 students how to do long division - the exact opposite of what i was wanting to do (I would rather have spent the week making coffee for people in an office or photocopying useless documents). Just my experience. But there needs to be something there to support and nurture the newbies of this industry otherwise it may just fade away into history. ~ Tari The Writer is a child forever listening at the keyhole of the adult world.

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