Los Angeles and Hollywood

For about six to eight months, I got to live in a great apartment in the heart of Hollywood.

It was a positive experience, and I highly recommend it to everyone.

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[Dalehiggins69]

What did you do to make money in Los Angeles? I am wanting to move there in a year or so to pursue acting, and in the meantime will be trying to save up money. That's my biggest concern; not taking acting classes and becoming a well rounded actor, but to be able to AFFORD the acting class, rent, food, gas, insurance, phone bill, etc. Thanks.

[TheLogicJunkie]

I did tutoring and test prep out there, and I also registered with Central Casting over in Burbank, just under this overpass-bridge thing. Also, if you have a college degree, you can go through the process of substitute teaching with LA Unified or one of the other school districts.

[Dalehiggins69]

Associates or Bachelors? And does it matter what degree?

[TheLogicJunkie]

I think that what you ended up with, in America, is an offshoot of that heavily Germanic part of England, as well as Germany and Scandinavia itself that came to comprise America's core power culture that persists to this very day... I refer to this as the "Mayflower Mafia". It's a very stern and narrow-minded form of Aryanism that employs its choice of Protestant religion in service of its incessant and all-pervasive xenophobia and ethno-racial narcissism -- all over the world.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@HeLovesCulture

As I've been investigating all this, I'm finding that there seems to be an ethno-racial conflict within western Europe, too, whereby you have a more indigenous Celt-Iberian strain of people -- spanning from Spain to Ireland and Scotland -- who were dominated by the more Germanic tribes of Scandinavia and greater Germany, and their cultural remnants are now the Welsh, Irish, and the Scottish to some degree. I think that makes a cultural difference.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@visionimagify Except when they're not! *L*

[TheLogicJunkie]

@TheDemocraticEmpire You may not be too far off with your "crack" comment. I've had enough experience with LA to know that cocaine rules that town.

[TheDemocraticEmpire]

Well, I'm from Los Angeles. East Los Angeles. Having worked at NBC-Universal, I got to see what evil was like. I didn't have a problem with people, but with the childish mannerism of management. The company is awesome, but some of the managers made me disgusted with their abuse of childish power. I felt like I was being ruled by teenagers on crack.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@theshooter2000 You're right about that. I just had other things I needed to explore at the time...

[theshooter2000]

@TheLogicJunkie I'm from LA (Not downtown or Hollywood though) and I'm glad you were able to have an overall good experience. It can get lonely there, that's for sure. The immaturity is also abound, but I find that in LA unlike other places there are places to go if you look hard enough to avoid it and still be apart of a crowd instead of a small rebel like faction.