Full name?: Carrie Lane
Position / Job title?: Singer
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I always wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform from the second that I stepped onto a stage when I was 4 years old and never wanted to leave.
Tell us what a typical work day looks like for you. What is your job REALLY like, both the glamorous and not-so-glamorous parts? Most people assume that I am a singer and a model full-time and in one aspect that is true, that is a full time job for me. I also am a bartender as my second full-time job. I work on my music and go to castings and such during the day and at night I go to work. A lot of people don’t know that about me, but I put in any of the work that I need to in order to fund my dreams. It involves little to almost no sleep, but I am lucky enough to be living the dream of an inspiring artist and am doing whatever I can to be able to be a singer full time.
What is the biggest career mistake you’ve ever made? I think the biggest mistake I’ve made is burning myself out. I’m very passionate so when I see something I go for it full force and sometimes I don’t consider other factors and my body shuts down on me. I think it’s important to pace yourself and set both short and long term goals, that way you are able to hit small milestones while still working towards a bigger picture while not burning yourself out completely.
What is the single most important piece of advice you would give to other career-minded women? Hard Work Smart Work. I’ve said it since I was a little girl because it is what my father has always said to me. You need to put in the hours, but you also need to be doing so with a focused goal in mind. There are a million indie artists out there so you need to be thinking outside the box and working towards something in a way that is unique and different and that will get you noticed- that’s where the smart work comes in. Anyone can just be spinning their tires trying to get somewhere and getting no where- you don’t want to be that person.
Let’s talk about work/life balance. What does that mean to you? Is it important? This is probably the single most important thing to me and something that I have absolutely struggled with. If you are putting everything you have into your work (as I have done numerous times) and you don’t allow yourself to have a life then it’s not worth it. You need to be able to live and experience things and be a real person. That is where your craft breathes and grows and where you become an artist. If you’re just a work machine, then you are going to be a very lonely person at the end of the day.
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