Are You Enthusiastic Or Overzealous?

How To Balance Your Emotions and Psychology In Life And Work

In the Big ’80s, I worked as a Page for NBC-TV in Burbank, California.

It was a tremendous first professional job, albeit Internship, to have in the entertainment industry. To this day, attaining a position as an NBC Page is considered prestigious initial employment for any college graduate with aspirations to work in show business (do they still call it that?). Not a Page for CBS, ABC, etc., but for NBC…the “Peacock Network.”

Consequently, it’s not an easy job to get. Many young potential actors, writers, directors, producers, etc. apply for the position, either on the West Coast or the East Coast, the latter of which was fictiously represented by Jack McBrayer as Kenneth Parcell for comic effect on TV’s 30 Rock, NBC’s hit sitcom from a few seasons back.

Many get the job by simply applying for it, knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone, or by just having the balls to go out and get it, as I did.

In September of 1983, following my graduation from Nazareth College of Rochester, New York (my hometown), I moved to Los Angeles. The following October I went to see a taping of the NBC TV show, Family Ties, which was a favorite of mine. Following the taping, I stopped a Page who was working the show and convinced…