Regina, an expiring actress who found a part-time job to support her artistic dreams.

Part-Time Job Supports Aspiring Actress in Pursuit of Artistic Dreams

The expression “don’t quit your day job” may be a familiar phrase to people who aspire to a career in the arts. Though it’s often uttered as a tongue-in-cheek warning, we’d like to offer a cheerier interpretation: a great flexible job can provide a welcome steady paycheck if you’re in pursuit of artistic dreams.

Our FlexJobs success story of the week, Regina C. from Houston, Texas, has many talents and a major goal to find success as an actress. Pursuing artistic dreams doesn’t pay that bills, though, and that’s why Regina turned to FlexJobs to find flexible, part-time work that would help support her thespian efforts.

Regina’s decision to become a FlexJobs member got her the part—that is, a part-time job as an administrative assistant at Artisan Creative, a Los Angeles-based staffing and recruiting firm that serves the creative and marketing sectors.

Read on for more about Regina’s success finding part-time work while in pursuit of artistic dreams:

Creativity and Work Flexibility: A Good Fit

Based on her answers to questions FlexJobs asks successful members, Regina seems to have a decidedly right-brain—or creative—bent in her career pursuits. In addition to pursuing acting, she also has a side business based on her talents as a painter. “Now my new job lets me do that!” Regina wrote.

But it was Regina’s acting ambitions that drove her decision to join FlexJobs. “I wanted to be able to pursue my acting career, and to do that I have to have a flexible day job,” she wrote.

Flexible Work Options in Creative Industries

To be sure, artistic and creative fields can be intensely competitive. Still, there are great flexible opportunities for job seekers like Regina who want to work in related industries. The arts and creative and entertainment and media sectors are robust sectors for job seekers looking for flexible work.

In Regina’s case, a Google search led her to FlexJobs. “I was determined to find” a flexible job, she said. Once on the FlexJobs site, she was encouraged by the “great reviews” of the service.

Using FlexJobs’ Easy-to-Navigate Website

As a FlexJobs member, Regina said she found the website features that helped her find a job very user-friendly. “Very easy user interface, and it pulled relevant job opportunities instead of just random things,” she wrote.

Regina offered details on strategies that worked for her. Most effective, she said, was the ability to use her FlexJobs resume profile to target the most relevant jobs.

Now in happy pursuit of artistic dreams and able to devote more time to her pet art business, Regina Tweeted about her FlexJobs experience: “You made my #freelance life  possible. THANK YOU for that.”

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