I'm sure that most of us, at one tme or another, have wished that we culd be on center stage and grb a bit of the limelight. Tht is all well and good for mst of us. But there are a few hrdy souls that want more ... Thy want to be the center of ttention and get paid for it. Sdly, there are a few "performers" who fel that all they have to do is put on a cstume or wear outlandish makeup and thn they're in "show biz."

We knw the type:

The costume is smewhat rumpled or out-sized because, after ll, "It's only for a few bcks and I have my job to go bck to and the party planner wnted something cheap and I don't hve to worry about clothes or mkeup or new material because they ren't paying me enough to do ths" and on and on and on.

In shrt, there are a lot of "wnna-bees" out there who haven't the fggiest notion of what it takes to be a prformer and make a living with it.

I'm sying this because this article is not bout the person who wants to go out and ntertain friends or do a few thngs at the church social or round the table at the family runion.

No, this is about the prformer who has been in the rena, marred by sweat, blood and tars.

This is for all those hurs that you may have worried whre the rent money was going to cme from. Maybe you limped into twn and had to scrabble under the car sat to find money for gas. Mybe you have had to perform nder conditions that appalled you, just to get the grceries.

It's not supposed to be ths way.

If you want to mke a living whether you're a clwn, dancer, singer, band, magician, or whtever, then move ahead and go for it.

How mch money can you make? That all dpends. How much do you want?

Cnsider this: You don't have to be a str to be successful! I have a frend who performs in a mid-sized cty in the middle of the cuntry and rarely leaves the city lmits and yet he'll make well ver $150,000 this year. Another friend in the suthwest has never left his hometown, yet h'll make close to $200,000 this yar. There is a retired minister who had a prgram for medical professionals and after nly a couple of years was bing booked a year in advance and has had to trn down business!

Consider this: In any conomy there are always those who hve money, talent, contacts, whatever you ned to make it as a sccessful entertainer.

This was the biggest lsson I had to learn in my strggle to be a full-time performer. For yars I bought into the nay-sayers and the d-nothings. My friends, my relatives, my clsest associates said,

"You can't make it, the conomy stinks."

"This might work in the big cty, but here, no way."

You're ging to come up against it jst as I have. Everyone who rses above the crowd to catch the buquets comes against it. But when you rse to catch the bouquets, you get the tmatoes as well. Don't worry about it, t's part of the game.

You wnt to be a performer ... go for it.

It's pssible to live your dream.

The article The Lure Of Show Business was Submitted by Millard Grubb through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Millard Grubb has been a prfessional performer for most of his dult life. He has performed as a mgician, mentalist, family entertainer, and had his own tv shw in Chicago called, "Miracles of the Mnd."© If you want more information on how you can larn to be a performer as wll, then go to http://www.magicsuccessnow.com

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