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November 27, 2005

Don’t just volunteer…sell yourself.

Disney:

I guess they were impressed with my wakeboarding skills (just kidding)…whew, I made it to the next round. We had a meeting at the Capital Events Center, a good 45 minutes from my house, and there was a hurricane warning. But hey, I like a good challenge. I made the drive regardless and it was worth it. Seeing as I had not met anyone involved in the show since I didn’t go to auditions I was quite nervous. But I was pretty impressed, they said there were 300 invited back out of 2500 that auditioned. So at this meeting we were split into groups, then they sent all the groups to separate rooms to discuss our challenge and choose a team leader. In my group, the Black team, I had a NCSU graduate student, a disc jockey business owner, a mortgage broker, a club manager, an ex-entrepreneur and a couple others I don’t remember. Well it came time to pick a leader, of course I was jumping inside…hey, hey, pick me, pick me. I just casually volunteered, as did the graduate student. We discussed for a moment our schedules and it was determined that the graduate student would have more time to devote to the organization of our team…in my head I was thinking… BS, these freaking people have no idea who I am and what a good job I would do. Well come to find out the team leader was the only person that could have direct contact with the producers when we had questions about our challenge. I felt I was at a huge disadvantage by not being the team lead b/c otherwise the producers would just see me as a number. So…first lesson learned, you always have to sell yourself, I should of made sure those other people knew how competitive I was and how great of a team lead I would have been.

The standouts in my group were the NCSU Grad student, The Mole, and myself, we all worked very well together and still remain good friends. It’s funny how the people that were in your original group throughout this whole thing end up being your most honest friends/allies throughout the process. The Mole actually warned me on occasion of those she thought were not being truthful with me that she thought would try and take advantage. Anyway, there was this one guy in our group that said he was a millionaire by like age 25 or something and had since lost it all and was now a parking attendant. A PARKING ATTENDANT, that was an eye opener, you’d think that anyone that has the drive and capability of being a millionaire by age 25 would definitely be doing better than a parking attendant job…makes you wonder how exactly he made that money. Any way like I said we really only had 3 contributors in our group. The business plan was pretty easy, just like what you learn in college, but the financials part of the challenge was the real doozie. In college it was always clear-cut and here there was no right or wrong answer. I guess ‘Producer’ really did know a bit about teaching how the real world works but I wasn’t sold yet, I was still forming my opinion about his character.

Posted by eventsleader at November 27, 2005 7:25 PM

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