What are the justifications for charging job seekers "audition fees"?
I'm from the theatre world, not the dance world, but this sounds ridiculous to me. This is like if Google announced that they would only see engineers who paid for an interview. A company that charges for an audition clearly doesn't have a product that makes the money (through grants or tickets) to cover their own overhead, and now wants to have people pay for the opportunity to work for them? I think not. One of the warnings that theatre professors and mentors give their students is to never pay for the opportunity to audition. The person is more interested in getting your money as an auditioner than actually casting you in a role. The one place where I can see this being different is in a large, unified audition, like SETC or UPTA. These conferences (for that is what they are) not only have auditions, but also workshops and networking opportunities). Sure, a large part of the weekend is spent auditioning, but that is not the reason you are there. Registering for a conference and paying a conference fee goes to the organizers, not the companies that are hiring, and those companies are also paying for the right to attend the conference. Auditioners are not paying the companies.
What a horrible place society is, people competing and not helping and family not caring. I used to be full of love and now I wake up with anger and hate. What can help me?
Welcome to the real world!It is hard to maintain sanity and sane society. Why religion, philosophy, culture and laws were/are build? For keeping insanity in check.Growing up none of us are taught / warned about how horrible things are. Most (please note I said most; not all) of the parents are dumb or mean(I call them sheeps); they don’t prep you for the world well. Many bring kids because they need some help in old age or entertainment in life. They shame kids if they don’t get that! Unbelievable!You grew up expecting that the world would be a nice place with nice people: if not all for most part. But now you discovered that it is not true. Now your expectations are broke and that is hurting you every fucking morning.Check out this concept of neuroplasticity. You need to rewire your expectations, happiness and daily routine.Change expectations and redefine happiness. These changes will take time; so you will have to be patient. None of the therapist are “there yet”; so don’t bother to spend money.Explore different stuff, and find out what makes you happy which does not involve any human being but youThen find out a way to modify your schedule, diet and social life so that you can keep on doing stuff that makes you happyIf you can not find anything that makes you happy; consider Euthanasia. No point in giving fuck about others and living in pain. You might have to move to the right country for this.Been there and solved the issue; it works! I call it expectation management more than anger management. Reading about Buddhism, nihilism and stoicism will help.If you feel like; lemme know how it goes;: Email: ashah@risd.edu.