[Tig] career path

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Sat, July 14, 2007 2:33 am, Terry Goins wrote:

> I¢m not sure how to answer the career thing. I would think it to be better
> than when I was
> Rob Lingelbach¢s boy. He would make wash his car. He would make me do shopping
> for him. I would like to think he is a much better dresser for all my hard
> work. He had a hard time if there was a spec of dust on his XYZ ZOOM license
> plate. I still have back pain from not getting it just right. So if I had it
> to over again I would just want Rob to buy a smaller car.

eee... at least you knew I had been treated the same way coming up through the
ranks
(so to speak).  Really, I don't remember any of that Terry :]  and a lot of
the time I rode
a BMW motorcycle to work.  Hopefully you weren't there when I had an audience
and the
throttle slipped while I was trying to do a wheelie in front of Action Video
on Lexington
Av. in Hollywood.  The R65 shot straight up into the air and landed nose first
on the hood
of a parked car.  I escaped with no more than a very red face, and was able to
get the
hapless insurance company to sympathize and accept a mechanical malfunction.

Since I came up from the very bottom (first job in video: janitor at Unitel) I
don't think I was too
sadistic, and always looked out for the people coming up.  But there is a
stage in the career that
happens to a lot of people, after a year or two in a position of authority,
and a salary more
prolific than ever imagined, where your head can't handle your own success,
principally because
you know many people more intelligent and able than yourself who are less
appreciated, which makes your own rocketing rise seem surreal and undeserved. 
Add to that a bit of insecurity, due to having to hang around engineers and
other colorists who have decades more experience then yourself, and there
sometimes arrives a defensive swagger evident in the major markets, among the
more celebrated colorists.

It's a wonderful experience to work in other cultures, other markets, the
smaller and the academic, the international and the local, after having
initially learned only one way to do things.

-- 
Rob Lingelbach
http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html