Thursday, September 18, 2008
I'm staying ten more days... Yay! Guess what?
Here is why I just can't feel that good about staying longer. After an OPT expires we have a two month grace period, but I kept saying: "There's no point on me staying here if I can't work". Was that an excuse to see my family as soon as I had a reasonable reason that wouldn't make me and other people think I wasn't that serious about my career? Maybe. Was that because I really wanna start taking care of my new visa? Sure. But now I just realized how right I was!
1) The SAG feature I have two lines in could finally make me SAG eligible (which was actually one of the goals I wanted to accomplish during OTV). But guess what? I'm not allowed to work for American companies anymore! So they are hiring me through the Portuguese company, which means: no SAG!... F#@k! I was so close!!! I guess the big opportunity did come and I wasn't allowed to take it... Still, I'm missing the wedding...
2) I had a SAG stand-in gig for tomorrow! After doing annoying background until I couldn't stand it anymore, I would finally get a voucher?! Guess what? I can't work!
3) Another company wanted to hire me for some translation/ voice-over and possible film gigs. Guess what? My OPT expired five days ago!!!
I swear, the last month of my OPT, I didn't use it at all, now that it expires, opportunities show up. And I say "Yes, sure". And then I e-mail them back "Guess what? I can't work."
WTF is going on?!?!posted by Ana @ 12:04 AM
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September 26, 2008 9:33 AM ,
Sarah said...
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ughhhh what a pain in the freaking ass.
At least you got to be an extra in True Perfection??? hmmmm Well I for my own selfish reasons are glad you stayed. -
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October 1, 2008 3:20 PM ,
Katie Coffman said...
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And now you're back at home and enjoying your family! That's got to be a plus, right? And then you'll get big acting jobs over there, and can come back and get even bigger acting parts here and can get your citizenship by being awesome instead of cheating and marrying in!
Yey!
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