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Becoming an actor!
Lately, I've thinking about a shift in my life. I've weighed wins and losses, and I'm committed to change it. I'm done with technology! I've worked enough. I won't design software any longer. Neither I will continue working on High Performance architectures. It's been enough already.
From now on, I am an actor!! (a director, or singer would work for me as well).
In case you haven't thought about it, that's the perfect job. Here in Spain, being an actor is simply awesome. It isn't because of the fan clubs or anything, it is simply because of the "create once, profit for life" sort of work you enjoy. In fact, it is even better than how is sounds, and I'll tell you why. Independently of how poor your creation is, you will earn money. But wait, it gets better. It doesn't even matter whether people go to the theatre to watch your film... you'll make money for life-time!
Previously I used to give off about all this mess. I wrote about the SGAE, their unjustifiable 250% intellectual property tax. Damn it, I even invited them to sue me!. But, you know what? I'm fed up with all those things. I will not complain about all this craziness any longer. I'm falling to the dark side; I'm becoming a Spanish actor... and I mean it!
I bet life will be much more pleasant when I won't have to worry about whether or not I'm creating something worthwhile. At the end of the day, the government will continue subsidizing the film industry, so why would I care anyway? The past year, subsides were higher than the total profit of all the Spanish films combined.
I know there will be many of you who don't agree with my change of life. In fact, odds are you'll be ashamed of me.. but, who cares?! At the end of the day, you will continue being charged with an extra tax for me and my friends whenever you buy a hard drive, and cell phone, or even a printer!! Well, and even better, all your Internet connections are about to get filtered in order to protect my creations. Hahahaha!! Come on! Confess that you're feeling pretty lame right now.
The very best thing of my new profession isn't that though. The thing I like the most is the helplessness position you guys are in. Who can you blame for the situation? The government that allows it to happen. Will they do something about it? Of course not! So, who else can you ask for help? The industry. Folks, your only choice is a bunch of big companies that are being hit by all this over protectionism. I can think of big telco companies that will lose half of their DSL clients the day after they are forced to filter contents and/or sites, for instance. I guess that hardware manufactures, companies building media stations, multimedia hard-drives, MP4 players would be in your side as well, although they seem to be doing nothing about it.
My advise, don't be a fool and join us! What's the point on working each single day? Don't you see that you can work once and make money for a long time? You might screw a few million people's rights along the way.. but, think it twice, it will make viable that parasite lifestyle you always dreamed of !!
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Excellent idea. I'll become an artist and film all my coding activities and publish them as art. That way I can use art subsidies to write code.
It doesn't really work that way for the vast majority of actors. They tend to go a long time between acting gigs, and have to fill in with other jobs like waiting tables. Furthermore, whenever the big media companies win more concessions from governments, like longer copyright terms, they don't share the extra money with the artists who originally created the works. They keep it for themselves. For every internationally known celebrity actor there are about a thousand hanging on by their teeth. It is true that the system that is called "residuals" in the US, where actors get payments later on when their work is used, does let them "work once and make money for a long time". For most, that's the only way they can pay the rent. I'd like to find creative ways that allow actors to be paid (most of them will make less than programmers do) and still let the Internet be free. Remember, the big motion picture studios are doing their best not to pay actors (other than a few stars) either.
Although I have to agree with Joe in the reality of the situation, I'm glad to hear about your change and I hope the best for you. At least now I know my money will be going to someone I know and care about and there will be less for those that I don't know. And hopefully you'll get to know some hot actresses to introduce to your friends. ;-)'' As far as I can see, it's a win-win situation for me. };-)
I did'nt know that abusive tax were already approved. I planed to buy a cell phone during my travel to Spain, now that I know that I have to pay an abusive tax, I will buy it anywhere else. That happens everywhere big companies have a lot of money to spend in lobbying (cabildeo) to convince senators and deputies (is not that just an euphemistic name for bribe or corruption?) If you have the right friends you can receive a lot of money from governments, money calls money! I am afraid, that you wont receive any cent of that tax if you became an actor, the reason is that actors do not invest producing media, they must endorse their (copy)rights to a company if want to work, they, the investors will get the subside instead. So please, keep writing your wonderful software. The cartoon is not far from reality, in US, and Canada, many mechanics are broken because car manufacturers do not release repair manuals, everything is controlled by computers in a closed box. Just the authorised dealers can repair new cars. Such a monopolistic policy is not far from apply a tax to every machine that is sold.
i am an actor in india,and i am dyining to work internationally
