Why should you give up on your dreams plan A or B if you are committed to it? Can you make solid plans C, D, and E etc. to support yourself while plans A and B come to fruition if that is what you decide to do, and have you really really got the information and plans you need to make your life a success for you - I am saying I would suggest professional help strongly career counselling and other stuff below? Take a look at Sarah Atwood as an example http://www.mahalo.com/sarah-atwood . She has been working on her plans to work in the entertainment business for seven years after graduating from a bachelors degree in theatre which has made her extra qualified and gotten her a lot of exposure and food in the door for many small jobs but no one big break at least yet, which was all related to her goals and her committment to her plans. Research many actors on the web, and musicians and find what they did before they were "it" and you will find a similar, mostly longer timeline of other plans and jobs to stay working and healthy. I have especially put Related pages links on how to start out and break in to a range of creative areas that Sarah is working in also so you can see how to start out in many directions. But notice that although she has done many creative projects, and has her resume up to date, her samples are ready, her experience is good, she also supports herself as a waitress until she can quit her day job and that is 7 years after graduation from a program that gives her specific skills and training in her chosen field. How is your resume? How are your headshots? Hosting demo reel? Youtube acting samples and projects you have done? What have you published? Do you have clips of your plays or screenplays that were produced and their reviews? Have you a copy of the latest Writers Market from http://www.amazon.com so you are writing for something real and not an imagined publisher, and have they accepted your query letter, and did you get an advance and do you have a contract committment for deadlines for writing the remainder of your perhaps non fiction book from your sample chapter and outlines that you sent them with outline? or has the local professional theatre given your excerpt from a play a readthrough and the theatre company has committed some seed money to you for play development? how many acting credits are on your cv? is it up to date? I don't know but some professionals need to look at those things with you to really know the answer to the question you are posing and whether they think you have the necessary skills and abilities to go on. An audition to a theatre school would give you a good idea of what is required for such study at college/university, do you have tuition or are going for a scholarship, have you contacted local universities and colleges to find out when you could visit the acting, writing programs is it once a year or can you get permission at other times? How many plays have you attended? Have you met the actors? How many workshops sponsored by professional organizations have you attended and what was their feedback to your questions? have you submitted a writing sample to a writer in residence at a local library or college to get a professional opinion on your writing? how many articles of yours have been accepted? or are you just starting out and did not know you need to do those kinds of things if you want to make it anywhere? What does your current voice, music theory, acting, writing teacher say about your abilities? and what you need to do to get where you need to do to make a living at it? The sooner the better getting the information, training and help you need and if you thought you don't need anything I am suggesting you may not become successful because you may not be doing what you need in order to become successful if that is your goal.

So, I would suggest you research and learn about what you are trying to do, and get very good at it, and get experience, and get your plans C, D, E, etc. in order also - does that help?
Disclaimer I am not qualified to answer as a career counsellor or give career advice nor should you take any of these pages in Mahalo above professional advice. So, I am suggesting that you do get qualified career counselling from a number of sources, school guidance councellor, employment counsellors in employment agencies, professional associations that you are trying to get into attend their conferences and join if possible and consult with them, network and seek mentoring from within the field you are in, look for formal and or informal apprenticeships and nettworking EG. community theatres are ALWAYS looking for volunteers in the administration of theatres, to rehearse and do readthroughs with actors, can you find playreadings in town? workshops? If you are not willing to do any work to connect and learn and research, then as a general idea not knowing you, I would say you are unlikely to be willing to do the work required to achieve your dream and maybe you should look at these pages instead http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-find-a-job or http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-study-in-college although you could use that info to help your career. I think that if you are relying on your friends saying yea or neigh on your career choice, that you really don't have enough information to make a good, researched, informed, and professinally grounded decision - your life is not a coin toss of votes - you get what I am saying? I hope this helps you start your search to find a sucessful and best solution for you. Just because you work as an architect, veterinarian, lawyer, or astronaut does not mean that you can't cut albums in the studio and also be a musician. I believe Jennifer Garner's husband is a professional actor but also still plays in a band. Craig Ferguson played in a band for a long time but is a comedian now, but he was a Hollywod actor also - how bad he was at that drove him to drink I think he said once in a joke and now he is a highly successful comedian on the Late Late Show. If you think that we will vote here without knowing anything about you whether you should keep your dream at all or not, and that is it, you don't have a good enough grasp of how complex the career process is and if you have no idea what you are doing, your chances of being a success are not good. So, what I am suggesting is to do more than gather vote surveys of yes or no, and really find out your skills and abilities, your career choices, your potential, volunteer or try it out, write scenes for a theatre group locally even if it is volunteer, apply for new writer programs, assistance, enter contests, attend conferences, visit professional organization events for the public, etc. Take night classes in improv, comedy, musical theatre, theatre, enrol in a community college, university for performance, apply for a scholarship, audition for parts, audition for a professional theatre school for a scholarship etc. etc. Just off the top of my head with only one sentence from you it is impossible for anyone to know what you should do, and Mahalo can only be a start with a few ideas, but it is YOU that needs to do the whole job and find professionals to make it so for you! My 2 cents. Sorry, I could be all wrong about you, but you have to admit I have some points worth looking up and it would be worth your while finding out what you need to do for yourself beyond the fun hobby site that is Mahalo can offer you.
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