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puppetmakerYou have your marching orders was something I have heard through out my life. Not that my family is a military family but because it is a phrase that has been used for various things at various times.
I can remember my parents saying it to me and it meant, we have given you a series of things to do and we expect you to do them in this order. I had a couple of high school teachers that used the same phrase and it had the same meaning. There were expectations of me and I was to fulfill them to the best of my ability.
When I heard it at the Yale School of Drama, it was usually at the end of the weekly stage management meeting signifying that we all had our assignments and sorted out who was supporting who that week. The 3rd years always took a first year under their wing and taught them the ropes so that they could do their jobs. We were a rather thinly stretched but efficient squad of folks that were with each other in the trenches.
I used it a lot with my assistants and coworkers in the theater over the years. It meant that I felt that they knew what I needed them to do and I was expecting them to meet or exceed what I needed them to do within the time frame I had given them. Because I trusted them, I was rarely disappointed by them. If you treat people like adults and that they have brains in their heads, they tend to want to prove that your trust is well placed.
When I worked at Del Rey, I heard the phrase from the editors I worked with. They learned early that they could give me a task and I was pretty much good to go. They gave me my marching orders and I, in turn, did my best to get things done in a responsible and efficient manner. If I had a question, it would be quickly answered so I could continue with the task. Authors love me because I knew how to navigate the various systems to get the answers that they needed including when they were getting paid. I was a good employee.
Now I am a mom and have a new set of marching orders that I have been working with. This set came with a lot less information than the other sets I have gotten during my life. Some of it can be experimental and some things work and other things are abandoned. But I am enjoying them a lot.
I have been noodling around in my skull about creating a set of marching orders for my art. I need to get a site up or sell on Etsy or Ebay. I need to make more art I can sell. I need to structure my time so I can do all this. I need to get my marching orders written out so I can see what I need to do to succeed.
Then of course there are the marching orders I get from Gary every week in terms of the topic at hand for this contest. I am sure that we will have new marching orders next week.
This is my entry for the Live Journal Idol contest about Marching Orders. If you liked it, I ask that you vote for me after the poll goes up on Saturday. There, now you have your marching orders. * Grin*
I can remember my parents saying it to me and it meant, we have given you a series of things to do and we expect you to do them in this order. I had a couple of high school teachers that used the same phrase and it had the same meaning. There were expectations of me and I was to fulfill them to the best of my ability.
When I heard it at the Yale School of Drama, it was usually at the end of the weekly stage management meeting signifying that we all had our assignments and sorted out who was supporting who that week. The 3rd years always took a first year under their wing and taught them the ropes so that they could do their jobs. We were a rather thinly stretched but efficient squad of folks that were with each other in the trenches.
I used it a lot with my assistants and coworkers in the theater over the years. It meant that I felt that they knew what I needed them to do and I was expecting them to meet or exceed what I needed them to do within the time frame I had given them. Because I trusted them, I was rarely disappointed by them. If you treat people like adults and that they have brains in their heads, they tend to want to prove that your trust is well placed.
When I worked at Del Rey, I heard the phrase from the editors I worked with. They learned early that they could give me a task and I was pretty much good to go. They gave me my marching orders and I, in turn, did my best to get things done in a responsible and efficient manner. If I had a question, it would be quickly answered so I could continue with the task. Authors love me because I knew how to navigate the various systems to get the answers that they needed including when they were getting paid. I was a good employee.
Now I am a mom and have a new set of marching orders that I have been working with. This set came with a lot less information than the other sets I have gotten during my life. Some of it can be experimental and some things work and other things are abandoned. But I am enjoying them a lot.
I have been noodling around in my skull about creating a set of marching orders for my art. I need to get a site up or sell on Etsy or Ebay. I need to make more art I can sell. I need to structure my time so I can do all this. I need to get my marching orders written out so I can see what I need to do to succeed.
Then of course there are the marching orders I get from Gary every week in terms of the topic at hand for this contest. I am sure that we will have new marching orders next week.
This is my entry for the Live Journal Idol contest about Marching Orders. If you liked it, I ask that you vote for me after the poll goes up on Saturday. There, now you have your marching orders. * Grin*
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Date: 2011-01-15 02:16 am (UTC)The only exceptions are those where I have been taught or learned something and it is covered under my Nondisclosure agreement I signed when I was working with a group of illusionists. Not to say that I haven't used the knowledge for my own projects, I just can't teach it to anyone else.
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Date: 2011-01-19 01:30 am (UTC)You went to Yale? I just asked a ludicrous question about whether you knew somebody or not without the slightest idea about when you graduated. If you were there in the early 90's, you may have overlapped with a friend of mine. :P
I applied in '89 for the graduate program in directing, but they wisely deferred. :D
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