Why the Startup of You?
Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it's now your job to train and invest in yourself.
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Random Quote
1991-1996
While completing HSC as an “adult re-entry student” I started volunteering at local theatre companies, including the St. Judes Players in Brighton and the Adelaide Repertory Theatre. My intention was to gain enough experience to apply for the Centre for the Performing Arts in Adelaide, which I did, but a friend aledrted me to an advertisement in a local newspaper calling for applications to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney (Acting, Directing, Technical Theatre).
Eager to get the fuck out of Adelaide, I applied for both colleges, and after being accepted into the 1992 class at the CPA, I bugged the head of the Technical Production course at NIDA to help me find work in Sydney to bolster my application for their 1993 class. In January 1992, he offered me a spot over the phone with only three weeks notice before the start of the term, after someone pulled out from the course. I took it immediately, packed up my life and took a train to Sydney just in time for enrollment and orientation week, staying with friends of friends while I searched for somewhere to live closer to campus, ideally within bike-riding distance.
There is a story here about someone's reaction when I told her I was offered a spot at NIDA, but it's only available to certain members.
During O-Week I put my name on a list of people who were looking for others to share a lease with, and wound up in Coogee with a view of Wedding Cake Island and the Pacific Ocean from the kitchen (an awe-inspiring sunrise), with other mainly first year students in design, acting and technical production.
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