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After a while I would ask, and people would kind of tell me, but up until then, they said nothing. But that was it, I just knew I did something wrong, but nothing more. Everyday I would do something wrong, and everyone would look at me like I said the “n word” at a vegan restaurant.

I had shown up as a stand up comedian, in a world of writers. I didn’t know until I didn’t have the job, how rare that was.

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Went in, casually cracked some jokes with some people like I do in any meeting, got the job. It was my first and only staffing meeting. At the time I didn’t know it was my dream job, I also didn’t know how coveted, or how hard it was to get.

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Plus I loved my coworkers and had fun almost everyday doing it: Dream job.

Not a great sitcom critically, but nonetheless, I was helping write a show, that show was being made, I was making enough money to not think about money. Keys in a box, door’s still locked.įirst Story: I used to have a dream job. However, if I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I know you don’t like it, I just feel bad, and I also stay bad. So if you told me, good chance I’d go, you’re right I do do that. Like your average self-obsessed person (everyone in our generation), I’m cataloguing them all day. Because if I knew what I’m doing wrong, or what you don’t like about me, I’d at least think about changing it. I think it would make us stronger, and I think this strength through transparency would make us all better artists, creators, bosses, directors, and more importantly people. So I suggest we go the other way, and not just in entertainment. You just said no, thus creating more desperate maniacs running around Hollywood and the greater world seeking answers from a stew of self help authors, yoga studios, meditation apps, and drugs. Also, as a possible decision-maker you don’t build a stronger pool of talent, cause you didn’t say what you didn’t like. Whether it’s personally or skill-wise, they don’t know why. The person you didn’t like can’t improve on this non-information, they remain bad. It’s like you have box of unmarked keys and you know that all the ones you’ve tried so far don’t fit, but there’s a lot more, and the door’s still locked. Silence is a non-information, and you can’t do anything with information that isn’t. The problem is there’s nowhere to go from there. I’ve broken up with someone over text before. It is easier, you don’t have to awkwardly tell someone why you don’t like them, or why they’re not good. It doesn’t help the gatekeeper, and it definitely doesn’t help the would be employee, actor, comic, etc. And that’s fine, rejection along with bad parenting are the two main reasons any idiot would get into this business. The audition, the most recent tape, the pitch, weren’t what THEY were looking for. Much of this radio silence is because it wasn’t good. The wind sweeps across the icy barren tundra of the great white north. You go to a meeting with producers, they love you, they’re going to regroup. You call your reps, everything is great and everyone loves you.

You audition for something if you don’t get it, you don’t hear anything. All it would’ve taken is somebody telling me: “Hey! Stop it, dummy! You’re being: (insert undesirable characteristic here).” But in my field that doesn’t happen. Now that I got all that qualifying out of the way, I’m writing this because I think all of that could’ve been avoided. I distract, annoy, and disrupt myself quite often. I didn’t want to be distracted, annoying, or disruptive, but I was. I never set out to be a bad employee though. In many ways, I’m a bad writer, and in most ways up until the last year or so, a bad employee. I’ve never written for a hit show, and I’ve never sold anything. Now, I make most of my money writing funny things for television. I’m a comedian, very occasional actor, and former mover/camp-counselor/barista/receptionist.

Andy haynes