Most of my job offers and confirmations for work come through as phone calls on my cell phone. Before doing extra work, I used my cell phone almost exclusively for texts, email, and internet. I rarely used my cell phone for any personal phone calls--those calls I take on our home land line phone. So when my cell phone is ringing now, it almost always means a WORK OFFER or CONFIRMATION of a shoot. A very "YAY!!!" experience. I now, literally, start to salivate and my heart rate goes up when my cell phone goes off because it's most assuredly a sign of work.
It's so funny because I think it's happening to Bob by association... I had a phone call this morning on my cell phone to which I predictably reacted with great excitement when it went off because I thought I was hearing back on a 5 day job I submitted for to be background medical personnel for a new doctor show pilot. When I saw that it wasn't a call from a casting agency but from an acquaintance instead, my whole physiology just completely deflated. A terrible reaction to what should have been a pleasant surprise to hear from this acquaintance. Bob had the same reaction. When I came out of the bedroom, he could hear that I had been listening to someone on my cell. He too was excited that maybe I had gotten that extra job. When I told him what it was, he looked a little deflated too. He is so sweet, supportive and in tune with me about my excitement for this work.
* For those of you who never took that intro to psychology course in high school or college, a Pavlovian response is when a neutral stimulus (a bell tone for example) is paired with a stimulus (like food for a dog) that induces a biological response (like salivation) such that with enough pairings, it only takes the sound of the bell to start the dog to salivate even without food being present.
That translates to my phone ringing, being paired enough now with job offers or confirmations that make my heart beat faster such that now any time my cell phone goes off, I get a hyper physiological response even though the call may be no actual job offer presented. Hope that makes some sense.
Okay, psychology lesson over... Have a nice day...
It's so funny because I think it's happening to Bob by association... I had a phone call this morning on my cell phone to which I predictably reacted with great excitement when it went off because I thought I was hearing back on a 5 day job I submitted for to be background medical personnel for a new doctor show pilot. When I saw that it wasn't a call from a casting agency but from an acquaintance instead, my whole physiology just completely deflated. A terrible reaction to what should have been a pleasant surprise to hear from this acquaintance. Bob had the same reaction. When I came out of the bedroom, he could hear that I had been listening to someone on my cell. He too was excited that maybe I had gotten that extra job. When I told him what it was, he looked a little deflated too. He is so sweet, supportive and in tune with me about my excitement for this work.
* For those of you who never took that intro to psychology course in high school or college, a Pavlovian response is when a neutral stimulus (a bell tone for example) is paired with a stimulus (like food for a dog) that induces a biological response (like salivation) such that with enough pairings, it only takes the sound of the bell to start the dog to salivate even without food being present.
That translates to my phone ringing, being paired enough now with job offers or confirmations that make my heart beat faster such that now any time my cell phone goes off, I get a hyper physiological response even though the call may be no actual job offer presented. Hope that makes some sense.
Okay, psychology lesson over... Have a nice day...
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