Time on my hands

Hi!


Okay I've started these blogs countless times, always with the intent of writing daily and on a timely manner....yeah, well that never worked out obviously. Times are different now though. Now, I don't have a job, I don't have a million things I need to be doing...what I do have, is time on my hands (like how I worked in the title? very clever :) ).


For those that don't know me personally, Hi!

My name is Charissa. I'm currently 24, and a recently married, semi-out-of-work actor/singer living in Chicago, IL. I grew up in South Florida (don't know why we capitalize the "s" in south...but we do) and went to college in Orlando, FL at UCF, where I ended up working at Disney World for 5 years as a performer and Universal Studios for 3 years as an Entertainment Production Coordinator.


As I mentioned, I just got married 17 days ago, so still in newlywed mode which is WONDERFUL! My husband is amazing and my best friend and I couldn't ask for a better person to share my life with.

I've always been a hard worker and determined to excel at what I'm doing...so you can imagine what being out of work is like for me.....to tide me over I've been picking up random acting gigs here and there from student films, promotional modeling work, extra work for television and films, etc...not exactly paying the bills, but it's something to do and a little bit of money.


In the meantime, I figure it's a good lesson for other aspiring actors to take. So one of the things I'd like to accomplish with this blog is sharing my experiences trying to find work in the big, bad entertainment world!


I really hope that my life lessons can help others. So with that being said, anyone who's reading, if you have any questions, experiences, or suggestions of topics that you'd like to share, my ears (or eyes, since this is an online blog) are open!


Thank you for your support and I hope this works out!! :)


Ciao
*Charissa*