[Dianna Vesta]

My worse job was a contract I accepted for a company that produces products for TV. I was hired on a yearly contract as an operations manager. That basically means you do all the stuff owners don’t want to do. The money was great but the job was extremely stressful. I worked for a couple who didn’t need the money in the first place. Trying to read their minds and keep them on a timely plan was next to impossible. I am really good at sitting down with an owner, hearing the plan they need and carrying out the details without bothering them. Imagine working your ass off to set up meetings, projects with deadlines and you must have final approval then busting your ass to track down the people who need to make the final decision. Everything falls on your ass and they are in Europe unavailable.

Then they would often change plans in midstream because it didn’t fit into their current lifestyle. This is all cool but they always need to maintain that final level of control yet not responsible enough to follow-up or through. Fuck now I’m bitching, huh?

I made great money but I worked all the time and often under stressful conditions. When my contract was up for renewal I declined and they couldn’t figure out why. It was the most stressful year (actually longer) ever working for a client. I wasn’t exclusive with them but the job was too demanding to do much of anything else.

The really fucked up thing was them insisting I fly to LA to oversee a commercial shoot only a week after 9/11 because they were too worried to fly. isn't that fucked up?