I've Made a Huge Mistake

1.  I have been re-watching Arrested Development.  It's so good that whenever I try and talk about it, my mouth just moves in strange shapes and odd noises come out until I'm a giggling mess on the floor.  One of the running jokes in the show is whenever one of the characters does something incredibly and irreversibly stupid, we get a close up on their face and they say "I've made a huge mistake." (I know it's not funny when I write it - just watch it, please? And I promise I have a point...)

2.  I've made a huge mistake.  Two, actually.  Nothing life threatening, but definitely worthy of head-ramming-into-wall.  Last week I received an email from a director about a callback audition (Yipee!) She had wanted to talk to me on the phone but my telephone number on my resume was MISSING A DIGIT.  How many times have I checked that?  Feels like 10 billion.  And it was still wrong.  eeeeffffffffff.  Lesson: Go check your contact info on your resume.  Now.

Part Deux:  I was just on Actors Access and thought "Hey!  I get to update my film credits now that "Percival" is done.  Schweeet.  

Let me preface this next part by saying that I often whine (quietly, and often in solitude, rather pathetically) about how I never get called in for anything on these online submission sites.  Recently, I went through major professional spring cleaning and updated/edited all of my resumes in an effort to make myself look better.  Or something.  Just call me in, dammit.  

So you can imagine my surprise when I went to "manage my profile" and found that the resume on display was old.  Like, 4 YEARS old.  SCHWAT?!  Embarrassing.  Mortifying.  No wonder no one on the planet would want me to come audition for them.  Ever.  

Lesson: Go update your resumes now.  Even if you think you just did that.

'Scuse me while I go scream in the shower.

-- Sarah Wharton

Comments

[Kathleen Sauer]

Sarah,

You are a very generous and caring person evidenced by the sharing of this story. Everyone benefits!

This kindness will undoubtably come back to you!

All the Best!