When my father, Joe Mooney, won a movie camera for his sales prowess at Chrysler, back in 1958, it was my mother (aka “Motown Magi” Mooney) who learned how to operate it. She filmed our family visits and other special occasions. She filmed us on our wagons, tricycles and bicycles. She filmed us doing The Twist when The Beatles were all the rage. She filmed weddings, birthdays, funerals. With practice, she got pretty good at capturing the important moments.
I think we all feel that if jurors were justly compensated for their time and expenses (mileage, parking, lunch) there would be people lined up around the block to perform this civic duty. But I could see when I walked into the Courtroom lobby that they don’t even have enough money to fix their clock. At 8:45 AM it was stuck on “5:15.” Well, at least it’s correct twice a day.
A few years ago I spoke to a college class of women who wish to enter the video production industry. But they had trepidations about the male-domination aspect. When there’s a room containing ten men and myself, all I can say is, I like the odds. But joking aside, video production is an industry that chose me. And now that I’ve been a part of it since 1982, I don’t even think about being in the minority as a woman. Maybe it’s because talent has no sex, no race, no creed. Talent is talent.
“All work no play makes Jack a dull boy,” which is bad enough. But anyone who has ever seen “The Shining” can attest that all work and no play turned Jack into an axe-wielding maniac. What is the lesson for the rest of us? It’s good to balance work and play. We all need to step away from the computer from time to time, and get a life.
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