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im 14 im highly intelligent known to loads of people from ages 10-30 as the funniest person they have ever met i hate school i just sleep all-day literally @ school i have no idea what im going to work as!i live in a dead end irish town!my sister and brother are in top universities studying at a-levels i have no intention on continuing on school!i want to work in the entertainment industry but i dont know what to work as or how to start inlighten me!PLEASE

Answer 1

Stay in school for now, when you hit 16, begin looking for a school of the preforming arts, that will be your best bet for discovering what you do best, who you are, and where your talents lie. Good look. I hope to see your name in lights someday.

Answer 2

Well, I have to say, if you'd written like that to any job, let alone one in the entertainment industry, you'd have no hope of getting it.

Every job there is requires a minimum standard of written English and maths - even if it's just so you can write application letters and calculate your own taxes - don't forget that the entertainment industry is largely self-employed and they have to stay out of trouble with the tax man.

So - you need to stay in school until you are at least the minimum leaving age in Ireland (16). No one - I mean NO ONE - will employ anyone in entertainment who should be at school. Even the actors in Harry Potter have to do lessons.

In the meantime, there must be a drama club either in the school or your area. Join it, not only will it look good on your resume when you leave school you'll learn a lot. Do the scut work as well as the glamourous stuff. Theatres etc will always need backstage stage.

Decide exactly what you want to do - if it's standup, start honing a routine. Try it out at school or church shows. You WILL need some other way of supporting yourself while you get famous - it takes years of effort to become successful overnight.

No one can tell you what's right for you - YOU will have to decide where your talents lie, and what you are going to do to make them work for you. If you hang around waiting for fame to turn up in a dead-end town, you'll be hanging around when you're sixty. Successful entertainers get that way through effort as well as talent.

Answer 3

The Entertainment Industry is rather vague.
Sleeping all day isn't going to get your anywhere. Get up! And think about what area of the industry would hire a person with little education, who likes to sleep all day. Or, pick an area and study to get a career:

Acting/Casting Notices
Reality "Casting" Notices
Advertising
Agency/Management
Animation/Graphic Design
Assistant and Entry Level
Broadcast News
Broadcasting/Sound/Music Engineering
Casting
Commercial Production
Crew Jobs
Crew Jobs (Low/Unpaid/Deferred)
Executive Positions
Fashion
Feature/TV Development
Feature/TV Production
Film Festivals
Human Resources
Internet
Internships
IS/IT
Legal/Business Affairs
Marketing/Promotions/PR
MBAs
Multimedia/Video Game
Music
Post Production
Publishing
Radio
Sales
Sports
Studios
Theater
Theatrical Exhibition & Distribution
TV Networks
TV Stations
Visual FX
Writing

Answer 4

Stay in school and study performing arts and business. You will find your own enlightenment and be able to make a living at it without being ripped off because you have some business knowledge and some deeper insight into the entertainment industry. And it is an industry. Like any other industry, there are levels and rules and dues. Study it before you jump into it. You have the time now. You won't later.

Answer 5

If you're sleeping during school, you're not that intelligent. Granted, being able to make people laugh is a gift that not everyone has, so why don't you combine this with a theoretical study of perhaps, speech and drama.

If you already have the natural comedic ability, imagine how much better equipped for success you'll be if you have the educational groundwork too.

Answer 6

You need to talk with some entertainment people to get ideas of how they worked their way up through the system. Write to some or go to a performance nearby and stay afterwards to talk to them.
For now, get started writing to make use of your humor. Do you want to be a stand up comic? They have to write out their jokes, I imagine. Research at the library the lives of comedians you admire and see what pattern their life took. Try to figure out how you could do that too.

Answer 7

Thats a hard question to answer, but don't give up on school or anything. That is the worst thing you coul do!!! A lot of people do not have a succesful life when they quit school. Follow what ever path you think will be more succesful. If you do quit school... you'll be up the creek.

Answer 8

well you could always go into the entertainment business. but you should also atleast go to a community college so people know that you have atleast gone to a college and got more education.. they wont really beleive u if u just tell them. and its always good to have mroe education because if u decide u dont want to do anything in the entertainement business then you can easily find a fall back position.

Answer 9

Just do it! Sleeping all day isn't going to get you anywhere. Go to school or not, but do something. Make some positive move in some direction - go to school with the idea of preparing yourself, just start writing, performing or whatever.
Act!

Answer 10

Um uh, yeah, and what are you gonna do if the entertainment business doesn't work out? My advice to you is to finish school, then explore your options. Most great actors/singers/directors/whatever you are wanting to be have college educations. There are certainly classes to help you be come one!!