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[> Subject: Not good enough
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Author:
Ryan
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Date Posted: 10:52:33 02/12/08 Tue
I went to a search similar to this when I was in my mid-20's (about 15 years ago)I didn't get a called back by any agents. Needless to say I was bummed out and quite frankly a bit pis**d. A few days later at my favorite bar I was sitting with a few buddies telling them about how good I did and how mad I was that I didn't get picked, then one of my friends said "Maybe you just weren't good enough!" Of course saying that to me after a few pitchers of beer was a bad idea (I was totally ready to knock his head off)After being held back by a few other buddies I realized maybe he's actually right. Maybe I just didn't do as well as I thought I did. Fast Forward a few years... I have a son now. I took him to The Great American Model and Talent Search when he was 6 years old. He practiced his poses and his little commercial which just melted my heart(I was so proud of him) I thought it was the greatest commercial in the world. At the end of the search his number wasnt called. Sure I was a little upset, I thought he was locked into getting something from the get go. Not understanding what had happened we were leaving and he said "daddy I know I didn't get picked but can I do it again next saturday" (He seemed to think it was every weekend) I explained that if he wanted to do it next year he could, If he was good all year. He did it the year after that and we got to meet with an agent from North Carolina. After talking with them for about a month we were going to make a trip down there(we're from Maryland) to meet with them. a week before the trip he says to me, "daddy I don't wanna go there" I had explained to him about how long it took to set up the trip and all of that and if he understood what he was doing and might miss out on. He said he did. So we canceled the trip. I figured it was useless to take him if he didn't want to do it.
That's just my story, but my whole point is that I thought I did good when I did a search, I thought my son did good and you thought your daughter did good which I'm sure she did. We all think our kids are the cutest and most talented and funniest and smartest etc. Which they are!! But not everybody sees what we see. Maybe an agent liked her but thought she was too old, too young, too dark, too light, whatever. Maybe her look wasn't right for that year.
But to call something a scam just because the outcome was not what you wanted is no reason to call it a scam. If that was the case there would be thousands of people saying Las Vegas is a scam because they didn't win a million dollars. When I went to the meeting they said they weren't agents, they said what they do and what they don't do. They also said "they cant promise any work, nobody can." That was one reason why I signed my son up was because the lady was honest with me. She didn't say "wow your son is going to go far in this business". My point to this whole rant is that just because we dont get what we want doesn't mean something is wrong with it. I wanted the Patriots to win the Superbowl, they didn't win, does that mean the Giants cheated???
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Thanks Samantha