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Rating Your Skills
What is a honest and accurate way to rate your skills as an Editor.
I’ll use myself as an example:I have had clients who have been thrilled with my work who are part of my regular client base. I have had cleints who at the end of the day, for whatever reason was not happy with my performance. In both cases, the spectrum of the work ranged from easy cut and chop editing unsupervised to intense, flashy, supervised by a producer who is clueless, “it’s 5pm now, it has to air at 5:30pm” crunch time editing. I have successes and failures in both categories. More successes than failures in my opinion. Then there is the human aspect, does a client always come back because you arent that good, but they like you or conversely, you are the best editor they have ever seen but your personalites don’t coincide.
I mean when do you know if you should beat yourself up and try harder, take it easy on yourself, or explore something else.
G5 Dual 2.0 GHz processor, OSX.4.8
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I suggest reading the book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
“You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is “flow,” an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding–an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi’s point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state.”
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Ron Lindeboom has a great article in the current edition of Creative Cow magazine (pg. 40) called “Clients or Grinders: How the Market’s Three Main Personality Types Affect your Success.” It really made me think about they types of clients I really enjoy working with and those who make we want to reconsider my career. Fortunately I’ve been lucky enough to work primarily with the former and not the later.
Lee
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