What’s a happening?

I once produced a radio commercial that started out like this, “A new year, a new you…” Well, I’m here to say, that I’ve started a new me. My closes friends already know that I’ve recently moved from Salt Lake City, Utah back to California. While living in SLC I learned so much about myself, and the potential I have to offer to the world.

It was a very difficult decision for me to move back to the one place I dreaded, Fresno! It isn’t really developed and it’s scary just walking downtown. When comparing it to SLC, I lived in downtown, and I had no problem of ever being scared walking the streets late at night, and the transportation system was as simple as can be. I could literally get from one place to the other with a combination of the Trax and bus system. I don’t live in Fresno, but a small town just east of it, Clovis. The bus system sucks, and doesn’t go through many main streets. I can’t even get to my work on a bus. But if I decide to take a bus, it only cost me $1 dollar, SLC it was $2.50 for a 3 hour period. Maybe you’re thinking, “Why did you move back if you hated CA so much?”

Well I moved back because I ran out of mullah (money). I moved to SLC not really knowing what I was going to do, I applied to a few full time jobs, but all I got was nibbles and no interviews. I thought of being a teacher, but the credential program took 2 years, and I didn’t have the money to go back to full time school. So I worked in professional theatre and REI. You would think a professional theatre, that should be pretty good pay, right? Nope! I was getting paid $7.50 an hour. That was the cap. Then I worked for a Tony Award Winning summer theatre company! The contract was 3 and half months, paid me just enough to get by. REI paid me more an hour than the theatres, but I wasn’t getting many hours. So if you looked at my budget for the year, I brought in little money, but with bills, I was actually losing money. That finally caught up to me, and now I’m completly broke. My buddy had a job lined up for me if I moved back to the Fresno area. So I packed up and moved back.

The Performing Arts Center in the Clovis Unified School District is a $22 million dollar facility. It has a concert hall and black box theatre. It’s amazing! I am a sound engineer and sound designer for the PAC. It should help boost up my resume and give me more practice on designing/creating art in a theatre atmosphere.

I’m taking this move as an opportunity to make some changes in my life and hopefully leave a mark on some people. Because to be honest with you I don’t plan on staying here that long. Just enough time to get out of debt. Some good things I’ve noticed already is I love living pretty close to my family, and seeing my college buddies adds more life into my weekly schedules.

So, A new year, A new me? We’ll see!