I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.
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I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.
After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.