Many times I have been asked, how come you got that job? or, how did you end up working with that celebrity? My answer has always been the same. Good luck! I have been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.
We were discussing this very subject today. Can you change your run of "bad luck"???
A close friend of mine, has been having some very bad luck. First her mother died, then while she was on maternity leave, she lost her job, her husband moved out, one of her daughters was diagnosed with a foot complaint for which she will need an operation to correct. If that wasn't enough, due to the stress of it all, her hair began falling out in clumps!
I hadn't seen her in a while, so when I knew I would be working on a shoot for which she and her two daughters could have some photos done for free and her makeup done by yours truly, I asked her to come along to cheer herself up. Well she had a fantastic time, she was a model for the day and with some pics of her daughters, as well as the glorious sunshine, the day was perfect. That was until she went down to her car!
She found that it had "disappeared" from the spot she left it in. She called me in tears and I eventually found her still standing around the corner from the studio, clutching the buggy in one hand and her 4 year old daughters' hand in the other. Just looking at the space left by her car. It would cost her £260 to get her car out from the car pound. Luckily (pardon the pun) I had finished for the day, so I dropped all 3 home. I planned to take her to pick up her car as she would otherwise incur daily charges. I waited in the car with the kids whilst she went in to get her ID. After 15 minutes, she still hadn't appeared, so I rang her up. Once again there were tears, she couldn't find her driving license or her passport. By now, she was convinced she had thrown them out by mistake and her car would be charged more in fines, than the whole car was worth by the time she got a new set of ID! I gathered the children and their belongings and went inside to calm her down. I convinced her to take long deep breaths (the air clears the brain you know) and that I would take care of the little ones, as she tried to recall when she last saw the documents in question. That's when I remembered I'd left my phone in the car. When I went to get if, I realized I had left my car unlocked, my phone in the front seat and my bag on the back, more importantly, all my makeup kit in the boot ....and I had been parked for the last 30 minutes..... in Hackney!!! Yet it was ALL still there. Now has Hackney just got a bad reputation that is unwarranted or am I lucky and she unlucky?
Well, as one of those annoying people who sees a silver lining in most things, let's go through that all again: Her mother had just died , which is always tragic, but she was 90 and she had been ill for several years and in the final months, extreme pain and the NHS being what it is, she was left in her own mess most of the time. Death would have been a more dignified blessing. She lost her job, which she hated but stuck to because it was a Government job and she thought it would be a "job for life!" Well it isn't anymore, so with the settlement she will receive, she can finally do something else with her career. In fact, that IS what happened to me, and I was able to swap careers and I am very happy, thank you very much. Her daughter has to have her foot corrected, but it is so she doesn't incur back problems in later life,a problem that is severely worse. As for her husband moving out. Trust me, she is the only one who'd have him, so chances are he will be back soon, so enjoy the ME time whilst she can! Now loosing your hair is a biggie, I won't deny it, but if Gail Porter's hair can grow back, I'd be thinking, so could mine. I would hold on to that minor thread of hope as if it was the last drop of water on the planet, meanwhile, wearing any funky looking wigs I could get hold of and rock that look!(I would shave it all off if I didn't have a skull like a bag of golf balls!) And as for the car tow, well there was a huge yellow sign on the meter stating there was a parking suspension. I would NEVER assume it was a safe Sunday, this is London after all, this whole city has a license to print money! Incidentally, I would probably have paid more than £260 for a professional photo shoot so I still got a bargain day!
Luck is all a matter of perception. If you expect goollies at every corner, that is exactly what you will see. So expect the best, you may be presently surprised. As we say in London, STAY LUCKY!
We were discussing this very subject today. Can you change your run of "bad luck"???
A close friend of mine, has been having some very bad luck. First her mother died, then while she was on maternity leave, she lost her job, her husband moved out, one of her daughters was diagnosed with a foot complaint for which she will need an operation to correct. If that wasn't enough, due to the stress of it all, her hair began falling out in clumps!
I hadn't seen her in a while, so when I knew I would be working on a shoot for which she and her two daughters could have some photos done for free and her makeup done by yours truly, I asked her to come along to cheer herself up. Well she had a fantastic time, she was a model for the day and with some pics of her daughters, as well as the glorious sunshine, the day was perfect. That was until she went down to her car!
She found that it had "disappeared" from the spot she left it in. She called me in tears and I eventually found her still standing around the corner from the studio, clutching the buggy in one hand and her 4 year old daughters' hand in the other. Just looking at the space left by her car. It would cost her £260 to get her car out from the car pound. Luckily (pardon the pun) I had finished for the day, so I dropped all 3 home. I planned to take her to pick up her car as she would otherwise incur daily charges. I waited in the car with the kids whilst she went in to get her ID. After 15 minutes, she still hadn't appeared, so I rang her up. Once again there were tears, she couldn't find her driving license or her passport. By now, she was convinced she had thrown them out by mistake and her car would be charged more in fines, than the whole car was worth by the time she got a new set of ID! I gathered the children and their belongings and went inside to calm her down. I convinced her to take long deep breaths (the air clears the brain you know) and that I would take care of the little ones, as she tried to recall when she last saw the documents in question. That's when I remembered I'd left my phone in the car. When I went to get if, I realized I had left my car unlocked, my phone in the front seat and my bag on the back, more importantly, all my makeup kit in the boot ....and I had been parked for the last 30 minutes..... in Hackney!!! Yet it was ALL still there. Now has Hackney just got a bad reputation that is unwarranted or am I lucky and she unlucky?
Well, as one of those annoying people who sees a silver lining in most things, let's go through that all again: Her mother had just died , which is always tragic, but she was 90 and she had been ill for several years and in the final months, extreme pain and the NHS being what it is, she was left in her own mess most of the time. Death would have been a more dignified blessing. She lost her job, which she hated but stuck to because it was a Government job and she thought it would be a "job for life!" Well it isn't anymore, so with the settlement she will receive, she can finally do something else with her career. In fact, that IS what happened to me, and I was able to swap careers and I am very happy, thank you very much. Her daughter has to have her foot corrected, but it is so she doesn't incur back problems in later life,a problem that is severely worse. As for her husband moving out. Trust me, she is the only one who'd have him, so chances are he will be back soon, so enjoy the ME time whilst she can! Now loosing your hair is a biggie, I won't deny it, but if Gail Porter's hair can grow back, I'd be thinking, so could mine. I would hold on to that minor thread of hope as if it was the last drop of water on the planet, meanwhile, wearing any funky looking wigs I could get hold of and rock that look!(I would shave it all off if I didn't have a skull like a bag of golf balls!) And as for the car tow, well there was a huge yellow sign on the meter stating there was a parking suspension. I would NEVER assume it was a safe Sunday, this is London after all, this whole city has a license to print money! Incidentally, I would probably have paid more than £260 for a professional photo shoot so I still got a bargain day!
Luck is all a matter of perception. If you expect goollies at every corner, that is exactly what you will see. So expect the best, you may be presently surprised. As we say in London, STAY LUCKY!
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