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Jill Chodorov Kaminsky
Freelance Journalist/ScriptwriterThe Washington Post
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At just 12 years old, I told myself that nobody was going to tell me what I was worth. I'll decide for myself what I am worth. That adolescent determination has taken me down many bumpy paths. Yet, those treacherous paths have made me stronger and given me the kind of confidence I needed to achieve my goals.
My career path has been haphazard, random, accidental, adrift, always out of control and headed toward disaster, and that is putting it mildly. I can t even begin to count all the jobs I have blown through like the Tasmanian Devil, leaving a lot of pissed off people in my wake. I am not proud of this.
On the upside, throughout my checkered past, I have never been arrested for committing a crime (I mean, I was never charged with a crime) thrown to the wolves, yelled at (ok, on a few occasions, I did get read the riot act) tortured, whipped across the hands with a ruler or eaten by sharks. I did, however, sleep with a scorpion while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and I witnessed a man use a machete to chop off his brother s hands. It must have been some disagreement.
What I learned about myself along the way, is that, with every knock down, I was able to get back up. I never gave up on my 12-year-old dream. I promise you, if you go after your dreams, none of these terrible things will happen to you. If it does happen to you, I will refund you for your time in reading my bio.
In my sordid, and sometimes honorable past, I have served as a Peace Corp volunteer, sold cemetery plots, wrote speeches for the President of the United States, invested in real estate, launched and sold a fashion mail order catalog for petite women, invested in tech startups, invested in crypto currency. I studied to be a psychic, wrote a novel about the funeral industry and (there are more, but I forget).
Today, I am an investor in Broadway productions. I write freelance for The Washington Post and I just completed a scriptwriting class at Columbia University. My sources of income and extracurricular interests have been diverse, to say the least.
I am currently writing two original TV pilots, a one-act play and a book about getting married for the first time at 50. I know, I know - I look like I m only 25. I am told that all the time.
I am currently a volunteer mentor with Girls Write Now - a nonprofit that works with underserved girls to find their voices through the power of writing and community.
Don t give up on your dream. You will be amazed at what a little guts and determination can do for YOU
My career path has been haphazard, random, accidental, adrift, always out of control and headed toward disaster, and that is putting it mildly. I can t even begin to count all the jobs I have blown through like the Tasmanian Devil, leaving a lot of pissed off people in my wake. I am not proud of this.
On the upside, throughout my checkered past, I have never been arrested for committing a crime (I mean, I was never charged with a crime) thrown to the wolves, yelled at (ok, on a few occasions, I did get read the riot act) tortured, whipped across the hands with a ruler or eaten by sharks. I did, however, sleep with a scorpion while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and I witnessed a man use a machete to chop off his brother s hands. It must have been some disagreement.
What I learned about myself along the way, is that, with every knock down, I was able to get back up. I never gave up on my 12-year-old dream. I promise you, if you go after your dreams, none of these terrible things will happen to you. If it does happen to you, I will refund you for your time in reading my bio.
In my sordid, and sometimes honorable past, I have served as a Peace Corp volunteer, sold cemetery plots, wrote speeches for the President of the United States, invested in real estate, launched and sold a fashion mail order catalog for petite women, invested in tech startups, invested in crypto currency. I studied to be a psychic, wrote a novel about the funeral industry and (there are more, but I forget).
Today, I am an investor in Broadway productions. I write freelance for The Washington Post and I just completed a scriptwriting class at Columbia University. My sources of income and extracurricular interests have been diverse, to say the least.
I am currently writing two original TV pilots, a one-act play and a book about getting married for the first time at 50. I know, I know - I look like I m only 25. I am told that all the time.
I am currently a volunteer mentor with Girls Write Now - a nonprofit that works with underserved girls to find their voices through the power of writing and community.
Don t give up on your dream. You will be amazed at what a little guts and determination can do for YOU
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